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Thanks for your work. I have a lot of experience being the engineering in inefficient organizations and I don't see how society would survive if all the dead we

Thanks for your work. I have a lot of experience being the engineering in inefficient organizations and I don't see how society would survive if all the dead weight was fired. The 10% of us that do real actual work would make 90% of the wages and the management class would live in poverty or be forced to take manual labor or customer service jobs. But there wouldn't be enough customer service job available because there are so few of us actual productive employees, and this problem would only get worse as those of us that understand technology are able to leverage it to remove the need for even more people.

cutemonster 4y ago
Excess management can be seen as a form of Universal Basic Income? For people in management. Just that to get this UBI, one needs to sit on an office chair and be in pointless meetings. And if society is partly built on this for-some-people UBI, and it's suddenly removed and there aren't enough jobs, then yes I suppose some chaos would ensue? ... Hmm but what if there was real Universal Basic Income. Maybe then it'd be simpler to keep organization more slim and effective (not "the end of the world" if a manager lost his/her job and there was nothing else). @Gary H -- yes thanks for your work and thanks for linking to the book :-) I'm checking it out
- gitfan86 4y ago
  People need purpose, even if that purpose is pointless from my perspective, if they think they are delivering value by creating spreadsheets of project plans that are never followed, that is better than that person sitting on the couch all day with nothing to do.