Panopticon

One funny thing about labor is the presence of the twin projection when you place two working people alongside each other. Even without a supervisor or a structured set of goals or workday requirements, the two people will probably work harder than if either one of them were alone. It is the presence of the other which evokes that deeply conditioned executive response, that feeling of being watched, coupled with the guilt of slacking off so fiercely seared in by capital. Simply placing two people together is enough to evoke that projection in each person, so that the two are mutually catalyzing each other, producing a productivity that is more than the mere sum of the two.