Not sure how apt the cargo cult metaphor is in this case, but the article seems to strike in the general target area of our current malaise. Interesting observ

Not sure how apt the cargo cult metaphor is in this case, but the article seems to strike in the general target area of our current malaise. Interesting observation about a complete lack of economic growth (as corrected for inflation), but I'm not convinced that the Service as a Service industry is to blame; I think it's more of a symptom than the cause. In this (some would say terminal) stage of capitalism in the West, we no longer focus on creating value -- the main objective seems to be extracting it instead. If every organization's goal is to turn their capital into more capital, what they actually do to achieve it is incidental. One could argue that a company of five thousand paper pushers milling around performing ineffective rituals is at least not causing any harm on balance (as compared to, say, arms manufacturers). Nevertheless, the current trend is to reap everything and sow nothing - somehow without the foresight to acknowledge the absolutely desolate desert this is creating. One observation that caught my attention was the mention of the OODA loop. Access to information is a prerequisite for power - even if you don't have leadership privileges, being well informed empowers individual decision-making. All this corporate obfuscation disempowers people at all layers of the hierarchy. It makes for really ineffective organizations - sadly, this is absolutely acceptable now, because they don't need to be effective at anything other than temporarily grouping resources as an entity in the big consolidation shell game. This has a lot to do with the scale of an organization, I think once a company grows beyond double digit headcount, things go downhill [1] 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172505 (I guess I like to harp on this subject)