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The lionization of middle management is a bit off putting, but there is definitely an interesting point in there about the centralization of decision making and
by topkai22 7y ago
The lionization of middle management is a bit off putting, but there is definitely an interesting point in there about the centralization of decision making and power, and how it has affected society.
I don't have the data to back this up (yet), but I suspect that the gutting of middle management disproportionately affected smaller cities and towns, and the elimination of those mid tier management jobs deprived those cities of thier elite classes.
- r_klancer 7y agoYour idea was fleshed out using St. Louis as an example in this article from Washington Monthly (warning: explicitly partisan source): https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/maraprmay-2016/the-real-reason-middle-america-should-be-angry/ https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/maraprmay-2016/the-re...
- topkai22 7y agoThanks. That is an excellent case study.