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by randomdata 787 days ago
> You will for example find that often managers and executives make a crazy amount of money, but are all but useless, but are only a small part of the bigger company.

They are all but useless, sure, but much, much more valuable people as they hold a scarce property that nobody else working for the company has: Trust. Value is defined by the relative scarcity of something desired.