Another note from the author: it is interesting to me that so many of the commentators seem to think that I believe management to be evil. There are relatively obvious reasons for why readers might come to this conclusion: the start of the piece compares it to other "oppressive systems" (capitalism, racism.) Most people tend to think of oppression as evil or bad because they inhabit a slave morality - that is, a form of ethics designed to undermine the power of rulers and boost the power of the oppressed. It is very difficult not to inhabit some kind of slave morality: it's in our language.

Like all social systems, Managerialism has victims. But unlike many other social systems, we don't have a word for these victims, or the experience of being victimized. For many, only a faint memory of life outside of Managerworld remains.