I agree with the basic premise: productive people do not have time to engage in petty fights. On the other hand, there are many situations where there is a sil

I agree with the basic premise: productive people do not have time to engage in petty fights. On the other hand, there are many situations where there is a silent majority of productive people who would literally need to speak up only once to topple an unfair system. The unfair system can be an open source project that has been hijacked by a small group of ideologists, it can be bad working conditions in ware houses. Certainly in the case of the open source project it would require just on mail per silent majority member to express dissent and shut down the bureaucrats. Yet, even in the simplest case it does not happen. So there seem to be more powerful forces at play than just lack of time: Lethargy, craving irrational authority, prisoner's dilemma (who speaks up first).