I just finished reading "Fat and Mean" which is interestingly on sale at Amazon.com right now for like $5.00. It's a hardcover and everything. The thesis of the book is that the growing inequality in American incomes can be attributed to the growth of the management class.
I think there's something to this. There's really no dignity in an adult person being told what to do. And most American businesses have a ton of people managing. Apparently, it's like 20% of the non-farm payroll. Managers are paid a lot more than ordinary workers. When jobs are lost to automation, they are worker bee jobs, not manager jobs. Managers have to engage in the soul killing tasks of instilling fear in their underlings and pretending to work. But, on the whole, workers suffer more. Is this the new economy?
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I am puzzled--there is no inherent
reason why being told what to do
is undignified. Everyone can't be a chief. Hell--the problem is that people *need* to be told what to do, and there are to *few* good managers. There are also the rare employees that should be managing their managers, but in general most people need a keeper. Hell I need a keeper. Takers?
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