Can you explain what you mean by your last paragraph? The inability to find meaning and indentity in ones work causes people a psychic crisis to leave their jobs even temporarily? That problem is an imagined hurt to the economy?
I think once you change the channel once, it let's your stay on a certain channel for the entire song. I was able to watch a single channel for the majority of the song. And the first channel that is chosen for you seems to be random, it's been different the 3 times I watched it.
Valve Software has a similar flat organization structure. You can view their employee handbook on their website[0], which outlines it pretty well(from the inside).
From what I've read[1], scaling of the small development/production groups is the pitfall.