More importantly, you're not in a hierarchical power relationship (probably) with your spouse. And at some point after management has demanded some amount of in

More importantly, you're not in a hierarchical power relationship (probably) with your spouse. And at some point after management has demanded some amount of initiative and workers have implemented some amount of things on their own initiative (which is another barrier), there's a big question of why there's a manager at all, or at least why they get paid more.