Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind.
If you look at a business you will see the equipment has a maintenance schedule. On a regular basis it is looked at to make sure it isn’t wearing out, to make sure it can perform as well as possible. How often does a business do that for people that work for them?
The civil service adopted a principle that 1 in 10 staff must be marked as failures, irrespective of how good they were. How many businesses throw out one of their conveyor belts if it is performing fast enough, but slower than the other 9?
Why do we treat machines better than people?