Meetings are not to be abolished. But they are not the end unto itself. It is merely a means to an end. A small piece of the larger pie of "work". In real life

Meetings are not to be abolished. But they are not the end unto itself. It is merely a means to an end. A small piece of the larger pie of "work". In real life, management shows that their time is packed with meetings while pushing actual production down to reports (who must attend all the meetings + do all the production). There are very few managers who defend their report's time as precious.