Paul Millerd shares an article that explores how the mindset towards work changed and moved towards the concept of careerism. Modern work critics blame Frederick Taylor for the hyper-optimization of the modern workplace. The accepted narrative is that Taylor kicked off a movement that looked at work as something that could be optimized and managed and that his efforts kick-started a 100+ year movement of steadily increasing optimization. Sounds good but it’s not true. Today’s hyper-optimized workplace would not exist…