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> Why would a carpentry shop buy hundreds of thousands of dollars of power tools without consulting with their employees to see what they actually need to get their job done more effectively? The logic of buying the tools then forcing the employees to use them "or else" is completely backwards in any sane world.

This is how it's gone down throughout history. It's why we remember the Luddites, textile workers who started smashing stocking frames and power looms because the machinery was introduced over their objections. The whole goal was to undercut the craftsmen's wages and bargaining power.

So, no, your expectation to be consulted was never going to happen and has not happened throughout history as industrialization has advanced.