That is a lie. A happy employee is not a productive employee. A watched employee is a productive employee. Studies show that you can pamper your employees or screw them up the ass every chance you get, and you'll still get similar levels of productivity if they know that they are being watched and evaluated.

Wageslavery, however, is rather cushy, I'd imagine. You get corporate health and dental, competitive pay, and you rarely have to worry about being kidnapped or killed. The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages.

Dystopian? constants monitoring, repetitive tasks, evil bosses, and occasionally the computer system that control your entires life gain sentience and decides to turn you into a science experiment.

Also remember that your corporation is a state unto itself. This produces problems of an unimaginable scale if you should ever decide to think outside the box and fail. Being a wageslave is sort of like being a soldier. It doesn't matter if you think it is morally right, if they tell you to kill somebody then you better do it or else. Whistle-blowers in real life get lose their jobs and are sometimes blacklisted. Whistle-blowers in SR are executed for treason.

And remember, when the Aztechnology legal department mentions the "death of a million paper-cuts" they're speaking literally. It ain't a pleasant way to go.

That's pretty much what I think. Most employees don't see the 'evil' of their corps. they do theiur jobs and get taken care of. if anything the better corps are the more protective ones. Until the Arcology went off the deep end it had everything employees could want. They never had to venture out into the dangerous world.

The corps provide food, shelter, protection etc. The idea of losing this, being fired or seeing your company go under is the worst thing that could happen to them. SO why bother about being a scary fragger to your employees? Keep them happy and they will work hard to keep within that situation. Be an ugly fragger of a boiss and they may wonder if another corp would want them.

This is for the average maybe 98% of the employees, even warehouse laborers have that view. It's only the higher levels and corp elite sec guys who would have and idea of what else might be gonig down. My favorite RL example of employees often not knowing what the corp is up to is in my own life. In the early 1990's Xerox, you know the copier people, was the major importer of Russian Vodka to the US. This isn't evil but I bet it would never even ocure to most employees that we were involved in that business. (Since the economy was not stable, futures of Vodka were sold to Xerox to pay for advanced office equipment.)

SL: Where is this Amendment mentioned?

and...

I couldn't find anything on #13 though.

It's described in NAGNA and mentioned in SoNA.

And in case you don't know (for whatever reason), I call it the greatest legal irony in SR because the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in the United States. I cannot reasonably believe this is a coincidence on the part of the authors.

Well, most of the references have been that, no, they don't see it as bad. It's like saying your family or home country is evil. Sure, there are people who believe it, but they wouldn't be employed by the corps anyway. It's the shadows, the Barrens, the outside world that is evil and corrupt and wrong.

Source? I want to know more about these studies.

Those would be the Hathorne Studies Hawthorne studies.

In essence, so long as you pay attention to the workers and give them positive reinforcement for their performance, they'll do their best up until you break them completely.

But where's the fun in that? Better to dump their asses in the Barrens. Especially two weeks before they retire and/or during the holidays.

So would I.

Excuse me while I go and buy a clean pack of seashells.
Be well; I'll see you at the Taco Bell.

And it would cripple them far beyond the idea of living paycheck to paycheck.

Am I wrong in my assumption that the majority of a wageslave's possessions are not owned by the person, but by the corp? I swear that was a major theme, but it's been a while since I've read the relevant flavor.

My remembrance is that the employee has corp scrip, which they can use to buy incidentals, foods, luxuries. All their needs (housing, food, medical care) are simply a part of their benefits. So when they die, there's no need for a will or the like, the corp simply moves out the stuff (which they own) and puts someone new in....

Dude. What? Except that, you know, pretty much everything ever written about the subject has either said outright or highly suggested the exact opposite.