Right, in theory. But in reality, in any organization of sufficient size, you have a lot of people who don't actually do anything creative clamoring to capture

Right, in theory. But in reality, in any organization of sufficient size, you have a lot of people who don't actually do anything creative clamoring to capture that excess value generated by the people at the bottom (and at the top!). These are the people you are trying to push out, not the productive, well compensated people.