
Summoned as the Assistant Manager
This book argues that no institution is humane merely because its victims are hidden: authority becomes legitimate only when the people carrying its burdens can name them, refuse them, and replace those who assign them. Its tone is warm at the scale
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- Chapter 21: A Name Under Lock 2,502 Words
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