This is true. I think organizations need to create more space for developers to grow as leaders which I don't see happening. In silicon valley contacts are as

This is true. I think organizations need to create more space for developers to grow as leaders which I don't see happening. In silicon valley contacts are as valuable as money and a person with manager in his title will build contacts faster and achieve more than a developer who actually might have made more impact for his employer. People with manager in title can work from home more often, travel on company paid trips more often and in general have a better social life than developers. At the end of the day managers can make a developers life bad if he/she wants too. That is what matters.