Civil society can scarce afford to sacrifice the underperforming bureaucrat, the overpaid apparatchik, and the superfluous middle manager. It is true that their inefficiency acts as a tax against those requiring use of their services. But what is a tax to one part serves as a subsidy to the other, and in a modern post-industrial economy, it is hard to say which forms the more vital part. Streamline the operations of state and of corporation by trading them out for the overperforming bureaucrat, the underpaid temp, or the new and improved software system, and you risk a dislocation within that delicate ecology of the market that leaves the dislocated with much less, those with much already much more, and those with little, if they are fortunate, pretty much where they are. Maximum efficiency is economic success, social ruin.