# The Developmental Bind of Metamodern Managers - Response By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2025-12-23 The organization loses nothing in the extraction process from its workers and managers. Metamodern managers have a distinct vantage point from which to observe, assess, and participate in this dynamic. This awareness might clarify the situation, but it won’t make dealing with it any easier. If the modern perspective can be reduced to a notion of enlightened, universal progress, and the postmodern to narrow cynicism with regimes of power, the metamodern perspective is one of ironic sincerity. The passage is from the modern through the postmodern to the metamodern. As such, the metamodern manager re-engages with purpose and meaning. Under the capitalist ideology, with its modernist paradigm, one assumes that managers and workers who conform to organizational expectations and perform assigned tasks will lead to organizational success and individual advancement. These assumptions are deconstructed under a postmodernist paradigm. At that point, one is left only to confront the stark reality that one is being exploited. As, of course, one is. It’s a rigged game, and workers and managers alike are exploited for the benefit of those in the capitalist class. Left at this point, there isn’t much one can do other than shrug. Metamodern management offers a positive path forward. One that is both ironic and sincere. Metamodern management offers the capitalist class something it isn’t looking for but desperately needs: beneficial antagonism. What the capitalist class wants is for managers to do what they are told and keep workers in line so that capitalists can continue to amass wealth through the exploitation of their workers. There is a limit to the sustainability of this approach. There are signs suggesting that the limit is nearby. What the capitalist class needs is the beneficial antagonism of metamodern management that will challenge but not dismantle the capitalist ideology. Few people are smart enough to pay for something that complicates their task and results in less profit in the process. Metamodern management offers the capitalist class this paradox.   #### Related Items [[Metamodernism]] [[Modernity]] [[Post-modern]] [[Organization]] [[Capitalism]]