Regarding the typists: 1. The author was born in 1930 and probably did have a secretarial pool to handle transcribing his notes into typewritten pages for publication.

2. Roenxi, I don't know where you are from, but you could check into how people are at the mercy of bureaucrats in the Department of Motor Vehicles in the USA if you want a similar complaint to being at the mercy of low paid, low-skilled workers with bosses that don't report to you.

You might also check into Kafka. He is pretty much famous for describing the problem.