While your point about jealousy is a good one, MBA-ification is real and has real consequences, many of which might reasonably provoke frustration I do agree t

While your point about jealousy is a good one, MBA-ification is real and has real consequences, many of which might reasonably provoke frustration I do agree the anger is ideally channeled into some attempt to productively frame, understand and solve the problem, but dismissing it all as sour grapes doesn't seem very helpful either I saw the issue pithily summarized recently: > Salesmen, in any field other than sales, are like an invasive species who outcompete the natives with their superior social polish, but who struggle to actually do anything, which leads to systemic underperformance and the erosion of trust, which only makes the competitive necessity of salesmanship even greater We need to build social systems which don't select preferentially for relentless salespeople and smooth talking charlatans if we want to live in a prosperous, harmonious society. The optimal proportion of these is in all likelihood not zero, but does anyone believe it's as high as we see now?