I'm noticing lots of people with both the opinion "I don't think I could work under a boss" and "hierarchies are efficient". But there's a tension between these two.

Efficiency properly understood isn't output per man-hour, it's output per unit unpleasantness. That follows from standard econ definitions of efficiency.

I would go even further and say it’s lack of autonomy instead of unpleasantness

High autonomy + high output = feel good 

Low autonomy + high output = feel bad

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Very interesting! I have not seen this model before. Thank you for sharing.

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That makes sense! You should be happy with the results of your work.

For me, it's lack of control over the outcome of my work (adjacent to autonomy, whether I get subverted from doing my best work, get blocked from releasing by a VP or whatever) and also lack of exposure to upside/downside of my work.