[JamesBarney]

My personal problem with removing "violence inherent in the system" of bosses/bossing is that all organizations need a way to fire people or they become overrun with parasites. And if we know we know "0 people who can fire you" doesn't work that only leads to systems where the number of people who can fire you is >=1. And I'd much prefer to have one person I need to make happy than n.

The other issue is it's great when responsibility and power align. I've worked on too many projects that failed because someone who wasn't directly responsible for the success or failure of the application had input and decision making authority.

[stevens32]

>all organizations need a way to fire people or they become overrun with parasites.

Feels like this is just generalized personal experience but are there any studies that show this? Is the threat of getting fired really the only thing motivating people to not be a parasite? That seems like a horrendously dark view of human ambition

[cameldrv]

Different people are different. Some people will work hard based on internal motivation, others will slack. Being around a bunch of slackers is demotivating, and it tends to cause high performers to quit or stop working as hard. You then have an organization of slackers.

[pintxo]

I read the parent post as, the "parasite" will be fired and therefore no longer be a problem.