If you haven't read this article in Logic yet, sit down with some wine/tea/drink-of-choice and learn about how every aspect of labor management, surveillance and the like that we live under unironically has evolved from American (and English, Europe - y'all started this violence, don't forget) chattel slavery and the race for "innovation", "improvisation" and speed came from chattel slavery and the obsession of quantifying such abuse and violence. https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/