Crime Against Humanity: Pensée Unique in Economics, 18

Maximum capacity utilisation in terms of human factor translates into individuals using 100 percent of their abilities and willingness to the 100 percent of their energy for 100 percent of their time. Well, even those committed to subjugate Man are considerably busy researching the right buttons to push to tame him and crank him up, which means that his willingness is not so immediately available. Human beings have to be motivated, and we have seen how the suppressive assumption of materialistic self interest influences both the quantity and the quality of human commitment. Incentive structures are the bridge between human nature and resource utilisation, and if they are based on a degraded false assumption not only they are degrading as described above, but quite in addition they prevent the full utilisation of resources. And since people and their willingness are the most fundamental resource because withouth them no other resource is utilised, you can easily see how far from maximum global capacity utilisation we are.
So, what may this false assumption conceal? The fundamental resource are people and their willingness, and they have to be motivated, so what may be the point in concealing that?
One possibility is protecting the suppressive manipulation of people. First, the assumption of materialistic self interest produces degrading incentive structures in society, and the resulting degradation of people is not confined to hampering their motivation, but corrodes them across the board. Second, many powerful interests are engaged in manipulation of people. Assuming human beings do not need motivation contributes to detract attention from the subject and thus to let such activities proceed unhindered and undisturbed.
Another possibility is contributing to clear the way for the powerful interests behind the neoclassical economics by destroying the natural obstacles to their power: the individual, the community, the society, the identity, the citizenship, the culture, the institutions, and the social structure and ethics. If people need motivation, then people produce motivation; the whole human structure, from the individual and his or her sense of identity and ethics and citizenship and culture, to the whole social structure as the compound of all the individual contributions, is the resulting huge woven incentive structure. As such, it is the natural obstacle to both the criminals who want to exploit people and the suppressives who want to eliminate them. Assuming human beings do not need motivation contributes to make the whole social structure appear less important, something the suppressives and criminals can more easily persuade people to dispose of absent−mindedly, and, being less important, to make people less inclined to question the incentive structures woven into the social structure, thus making them more easily manipulable.