Why American Corporations Are So Dysfunctional

based on anthropological training + twenty years of over-exposure

smiling bureaucrats in cubicles

A bureaucracy is a social formation first developed by cash-based, complex societies fed and fueled by large-scale agriculture and trade. It was a major, human innovation in organizing labor and it required literacy. In the scope of 5,000,000 years of human history, bureaucratic organizations are new.

But this is not why so…