> i don't dimiss the layers of HR managing legal and financial duties in a company and thus taking a cut

I don't wanna dismiss them either but (along with management):

- It's not positive-sum work. It doesn't produce positive value for society, it's just necessary work which needs to be done as a side effect of actual positive-sum work being done.

- The pyramid should be inverted. Managers, layers, accountants, etc. should be assistants. The people doing the actual work should (collectively) decide to hire them when they think it would make them more productive or be otherwise beneficial to them. Not the other way around.

it's an interesting question as of why the management layer has always been seen as more important than the builders, crafters, designers below