You are assuming all stakeholders want the mid level people gone. We already have the technology to automate most of this stuff - bullshit jobs exist for a different reason.
that is the exact opposite of what i said. i said it multiplies the effectiveness of people in the middle of a company. so they dont have to be stuck with middleware interfaces from dead software that hasnt been maintained in 10 years.
I partially agree, there are huge delusions of Homo economicus.
There is also this other process at work that is shaped by quarterly earnings reports in public markets. Maybe if we started over with a mirror economy that we rebuild from the ground up, most of these things could be automated.
I think there are many inefficiencies in the system that Homo economicus wouldn't be able to deal with even if Homo economicus actually existed.