Efficiency, accuracy, verifiability, and objectivity; these are the four gods of the capitalist society. Each plays a vital role in keeping the capitalist machine running, creating the continuation of exploitation and the hunger for expansion.
Efficiency: Time is money, the more fluid any operation can be, the more money can be earned. It is a need that everything be at optimum speed, with little waste – and this waste being time. When things break or there is a pause in production, every second is a loss of some monetary amount to the capitalist machine.
Accuracy: Every product and service generates a revenue. The production of an item must be accurate, an item produced which does not meet its designed output must be recreated, creating a loss of time and resources. Services must perform accurately to insure that all other functioning part of the capitalist machine can continue to run without a disruption.
Verifiability: Everything created in a capitalist machine is designed to generate revenue. Each new item designed and brought to creation must be verified to create a new market, or evolve the current market. This verification insures that revenue will continue, and the machine will continue to grow.
Objectivity: The drives of the capitalist machine are expansion and the generation of revenue. Individual bias of emotions do not play a role in the creation of these two objectives. The individuals within the capitalist machine must see that all operations and productions are continuing forward.
If one of these principles were to be taken out of the equation which forms the capitalist machine, it would not be able to function. Each principle is always in use, creating a constant need of checks and balance – each principle needs the other.
In order for there to be an efficient production, there must be utmost accuracy. In turn, an efficient production produces an accurate product. But, in order to create an accurate, efficient product, it must be able to be sold. Each item entered into the world of the capitalist machine must be checked, and double checked, verified that it will succeed. Is the product’s success a reality? Efficiency declines if a product fails, resources are wasted, and so is revenue. The individuals involved must be objective, forgetting their personal morals. If the capitalist machine was just centered around a single individual, personal morals would cause no issue, for there would be one standard. However, the capitalist machine is a society, full of an infinite amount of individuals. To acknowledge all individual morals during the production of a product, efficiency would decline, and money would be lost. Individuals must sacrifice their personal morals to insure that production is continued in an accurate, efficient manner.
As the individuals surrender their personal morals for objectivity needed to keep the capitalist machine running, their exploitation is imminent. When individuals sacrifice themselves for the sake of efficiency and accuracy, they transform from individuals to machines.
As the capitalist machine evolves, a hierarchy of power and wealth develops. The larger the capitalist machine, as the individuals within grows, it becomes more difficult to keep each principle in full action. With this growth objectivity is needed more and more to insure that each product’s verifiability is certain, that all actions are accurate, and efficiency maintains at a high. Out of this need for objectivity, the hierarchy begins to form.
Individuals who are more capable of surrendering their personal morals for the sake of objectivity in production, are awarded with more parts of the products revenue. These individuals are seen as the oil which keeps the capitalist machine functioning, always making sure that products are accurate and made efficiently. From this stems the tiered formation of management; there becomes the worker, and then the ladder of those who manage the workers.
However, there cannot be an even amount of individuals on any level of the hierarchy. For the principles of the capitalist machine to continue functioning with this displaced power an unbalanced ratio develops. There must be more workers achieving high efficiency and accuracy than those who are managing their objectivity and the products verifiability in the market. If there were to be a balanced ratio, then efficiency and accuracy would decline, and there is more emphasis on objectivity and verifiability.
Soon a hierarchal pyramid forms, with the workers creating the bottom, and the line of management continuing upward until there is only one individual at the top. Those who are managing the workers have their own managers, double checking that the principles are in check.
As the pyramid grows, those higher in the pyramid attain power and control over those below them. These individuals are seen as having more importance than those below them in keeping the capitalist machine functioning; in return, they receive more portions of the revenue returned from the product than those farther down the pyramid. Since there are fewer individuals at the top of the pyramid, they are more secure in their position than those farther and farther down. The workers who are the bottom of the pyramid have very little security. This development allows the worker to be exploited.
Since there is little security, the worker is willing to continue sacrificing their morals to be more objective, to keep creating an efficient and accurate product, becoming more and more like a machine and not a human. It is difficult for the worker to avoid this exploitation, for if they fall behind, they can be replaced by another worker who might be more willing to be more objective, efficient, and accurate.
Once the capitalist machine reaches this stage, it is difficult for it to break down. There becomes an oligarchy of individuals who control most of the power within the machine, and the wealth. The workers begin to struggle against one another in an effort to keep their revenue, and survive within the machine. The only possible way to break down the machine at this point in its evolutionary stage would be an act of solidarity between the workers; without their full cooperation, the pyramid would tumble.
