What the Industrial Bargain Cost that AI is now Revealing

(From my new book- What AI Reveals)

For the better part of a century, the ‘industrial bargain’ held. You accept standardization. You perform compliance. You suppress the parts of yourself that don’t fit the system. In return, you get stability. A paycheck. A defined role.

The psychological cost was immense, and mostly invisible. Frederick Herzberg’s research in the 1950s and 1960s set out …