I get why people think that every job but theirs is fake. There's a sense that we sort of intuit that in complex orgs the actual load-bearing positions differ from the org chart (cf. Ed B's post about Peggy and the University). BS jobs flatters the, "only I do real work" impulse.
I get mad about my companies org chart and pay structure not reflecting the actual load bearing positions that is not the same as thinking I am a load bearing position or that managers are useless.
I have the blessing and curse of living in a micronation where anyone can walk up to the Tribal government and be like "I want to be involved in politics" and get put on 3 committees, and honestly? Maybe we could use more managers and less democracy.
It'd be nice if we just ran our museum instead of having it be run indirectly with an oversight committee consisting of five elders, all of whom have beeves with the other four.
my theory of governance is that good governance requires government that is effective enough but isn't too effective because being too effective means beeves have too large an impact. so all human governmental history is attempts to balance out effectiveness.
