[tokyodude]

The problem has multiple issues. Managers getting paid more is certainly an incentive for people who aren't qualified to want to become managers.

Managers having power is another issue. It's possible for a manager to have less power. Their job being to facilitate and coordinate rather than direct.

Managers have power on multiple levels as well. Some have power over people, who does what, but they also often have power of decisions, what gets done, what to make, where to focus.

In other words, to fix the incentives that pull non-qualified people into management positions it seems like all of those issues need to be separated from the manager position?

In other words someone might not be a people person so isn't good and facilitating and coordinating between people and or other teams but they could be good at one or more kinds of team level decision making and want that responsibility.

[ken]

One partial solution to having a single power hierarchy is having multiple power hierarchies. Then no one person is the boss of me, and when someone wants something done, they can't just order me to do it. They can't be a jerk to me or they might find their work assigned to my lowest priority.

It can go horribly wrong, too ("I have eight different bosses, Bob!"). I don't think there's any power structure which can prevent selfish or malevolent people from harming the organization: "The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery."