Alternative theory: There are people with money/power, their primary skill is knowing how power/money works and knowing other people who also have this skill.

Alternative theory: There are people with money/power, their primary skill is knowing how power/money works and knowing other people who also have this skill. There are regular people, their skill is learning to do whatever people with power/money decide is important. The reason managers get to decide salaries, who gets promoted, etc, is because managers mimic the power/money class, engineers mimic regular people. That's all that's happening here. Feel free to replace money/power people and regular people with aristocrat/pleb, master/slave, clergy/believers, cult leader/cult follower, ubermensh/human, etc. It's really all incredibly boring because regular people who graduate to money/power, quickly adopt money/power beliefs and the cycle continues. (Author of this article should read a little Karl Marx, he's re-inventing Das Kapital)