"Often you need someone to perform a dull role." If you see your company as a machine in which you and a few select managers are the controllers, and everyone

"Often you need someone to perform a dull role." If you see your company as a machine in which you and a few select managers are the controllers, and everyone else is, somewhat literally, just a tool. This is the subconcious model that permeates our society, for better or for worse. "There are plenty of people, even knowledge workers, who are satisfied with a steady paycheck and a low level of workplace stimulation." Really? That sounds a lot like somebody in power justifying to themselves why the other people are not in power -- because they are "satisfied" with their lot. This is a very, very old trope, including the whole White Man's Burden thing, etc.