If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary. β¨ Ayn Rand (1999). The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, p.35, Penguin
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