Were what you said even remotely true than a really bad department manager and CTO would stand to lose 100x/1000x what a burger flipper makes when they fuck up

Were what you said even remotely true than a really bad department manager and CTO would stand to lose 100x/1000x what a burger flipper makes when they fuck up and make things worse. The force multiplier works in both directions. More realistically, the pay is about control and class. An incompetent CTO who always makss everything worse is just not in the same social class as a programmer, let alone a burger flipper, and will typically still earn 100x as much while making everything 100x worse. ^ I've worked with one of them.