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Why is this troubling? Before we had today's military-style old-school authoritarian corporate structure, Artisan guild economies were very family-like. It's not under-compensation if the worker is getting more of what they want. Even Žižek says that the authoritarian style assumes that you know what the workers want more than they know themselves, and you're assuming that they want monetary compensation more.
The difference with a family-like artisan guild is that the workers themselves own the means of production, unlike today's typical corporate structure. Žižek's stated preference for the in-your-face authoritarian style is underpinned by his Marxist background. He wants the boss to get in your face so that you are better able to rebel against capitalism. He sees this post-modern soft totalitarian style as far more thr…
Also, in trade guilds, apprentices and journeyman rarely owned their own means of production.