"Any horrible task can be split up and thus be made more fullfillable by the human employed in the process."
I think you're onto something here but I think there is a detail you've missed - hierarchy.
It's not the number of people involved that allows a a terrible process to be completed but rather the number of layers of hierarchy.
Someone at the top says "just make this (outcome) happen" and if they say that to the person who actually has to carry it out, there is pushback or guilt or exposure. But if that person can, in turn, tell someone else a level below to "just make this (outcome) happen" eventually there is enough insulation (emotional, legal, etc.) that someone at the end of the chain can get the shaft.
You can't really do that with a flat (absent) hierarchy.
I think you're onto something here but I think there is a detail you've missed - hierarchy.
It's not the number of people involved that allows a a terrible process to be completed but rather the number of layers of hierarchy.
Someone at the top says "just make this (outcome) happen" and if they say that to the person who actually has to carry it out, there is pushback or guilt or exposure. But if that person can, in turn, tell someone else a level below to "just make this (outcome) happen" eventually there is enough insulation (emotional, legal, etc.) that someone at the end of the chain can get the shaft.
You can't really do that with a flat (absent) hierarchy.