The historical caveat is that the Liberty program's leaders were people of their own time and should not be flattened into modern political caricatures. Within that caveat, Kaiser appears unusually focused on whether the people around him could do their jobs well. In an enterprise recruiting and organizing workers at immense scale, that performance criterion connected individual labor to the output of the wider system. Teams are evaluated here against the mission they must actually deliver.
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Kaiser evaluates workers by what they can deliver
Kaiser's leadership judged people chiefly by how effectively they could perform the work required by his industrial system.