( my dad said: "this is where it all went wrong.")
Otto Neurath’s Modern Man in the Making (1939) and Scientific Management
"Abandoning theology and enlightenment liberalism, he even went so far as to propose an ethics modeled on an extrapolation of Scientific Management which would take the form of the extension of convention and habit into new forms of life."
By Michael J. Golec
https://nonsite.org/otto-neuraths-modern-man-in-the-making-1939-and-scientific-management/