Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
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What's the Difference Between Taylorism and Gamification?
In the next chapter, you also show how gamification has amplified these exhausting, technologically driven micromanagement of taxi and drug drivers or call center agents. And since not every listener might be familiar with this specific term of Taylorism, maybe you could start a short dive into that chapter by explaining the similarities you have discovered. Well, Taylorism began with Fred Wenzo Taylor back in the late 19th century and he was interested in trying to effectively increase the productivity of factories.
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