I'd say this of low- or first-level managers, but not the middle layers.
Those are filled with people who are clinging to their roles well past their usefulness, because even though they're ruining social supports like Medicare and Social Security by pulling out multiples more funds than they ever contributed, they also failed to save anything of their own or are otherwise refusing to retire and leave the workforce (even though they've already started receiving "retirement" benefits).
To quote the Princess Bride, "you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means".