> "...and 'MBA-ization'..." unless you hold an MBA degree, this phrase really weakens your critique, because it rests on a trope rather than experience. you co

> "...and 'MBA-ization'..." unless you hold an MBA degree, this phrase really weakens your critique, because it rests on a trope rather than experience. you could have easily left it out and it would have only strengthened your credibility. nearly everyone has experienced corporatocracy, either as an employee or a customer (rarely as an executive or involved shareholder), but most people don't have MBAs and can't speak to how it directly influences organizational structures and behavior (if at all). the "ever-expanding bureaucracy" you reference is a direct, if unintuitive, consequence of privileging capital over labor. middle managers seek power and prestige through bureacracy because it reflects the values of capital holders (money and strict hierarchy, for example), rather than the creators and doers who seek power and prestige through demonstrations of skill. to change this, we need a fairer balance between capital and labor (not a wild swing of the pendulum). we need to better reward the makers, not the rent-seekers. laws and norms and expectations and literally who we look up to needs to change.