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Only in creative fields, but most of the office work is not that. And nothing of that creative work could be done without someone taking care of infrastructure,
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Only in creative fields, but most of the office work is not that. And nothing of that creative work could be done without someone taking care of infrastructure, electricity, food, cleaning the offices, taking out garbage, etc. Don't underestimate how much us "intellectuals" in the modern civilization are dependent on everyone else doing their job...
- malvosenior 7y agoValue is based on supply and demand. Literally anyone can clean the office. Very few can optimize your high volume ecommerce system to save you millions of dollars a year. It makes no sense to pay the janitor the same as the chief architect.
- ivanhoe 7y agoBut you still need that "anyone" doing their job in order for superstars to function. So, you need a team in place in order to produce some value. Admittedly some members of the team are easier to replace and paid accordingly, but saying that just a few specialists produce "all the value" while others are just sitting there and using up the oxygen is just plain wrong.