Ex cargo Clown
You are probably right.. in fact.. having met some of them . you are right!
but
how many of them are there ? ( do you know.?)
Are there several thousand?
( I have no idea .. do you?)
What I do think is that lots of "senior" managers, who were on very high salaries, many of whom also had a lot of experience, have left and been replaced, in the main, with younger , less experienced ( and possibly lower cost?) MBA's, who know lots of theory, but with little experience.
But are the costs of "manning " Waterworld going up, or down?
I have no idea.
However :
The fact that there are lots of "MBA clowns" at Waterworld in no way detracts from the statement :
"old-fashioned union-dominated working practices were not challenged "
Both need attention and changing .