I agree that “managers” are these days mostly a legacy from Industrial Revolution. Supervisors at every few dozen people was a solution for armies and factori

I agree that “managers” are these days mostly a legacy from Industrial Revolution. Supervisors at every few dozen people was a solution for armies and factories where the human does all the work. As those workers “do what they are told” and do not “leave the farm” you can call it feudalism if you want. But now the CPU does all the work so the coders are the new managers Yes we need fewer supervisor-managers, because we have / need fewer workers. Bauer thinks they just need a few brilliant chemists who can use AI to find that new protein. They might be right. But there is a flaw - they still Want the cash to flow upwards. They still see owning the capital as the right to get the returns to capital. They still want feudalism, but with fewer grabbing barons. Bauer seems to have missed the point that self-organising is democracy. That equal say means equal share That letting smart mission driven people organise will likely lead to better results around the mission, but also lead to them asking “why aren’t we getting better paid, and who is taking all the money?” FDR was called a traitor to his class. Or a hero for democracy.