| "These expert men,
technologists, engineers, or whatever name may best suit
them, make up the indispensable General Staff of the
industrial system; and without their immediate and
unremitting guidance and correction the industrial system
will not work. It is a mechanically organized structure
of technical processes designed, installed, and conducted
by these production engineers. Without them and their
constant attention the industrial equipment and
mechanical appliances of industry, will foot up to just
so much junk." (Thorstein B. Veblen)
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