no, management isn't filled with "special people", but they are the ones who make it possible for those "average joes" to earn a living. for any enterprise to get off the ground there must be a sizable investment of capital. to keep it running there must be someone to organize and manage its affairs. those managers and investors are taking on a significantly larger share of the risk and the responsibility. don't you think they deserve a larger share of the reward? well, i know you don't, but any rational person would. the average worker is fodder, an expense in production that is only worth as much as he puts into the goods or services involved. that may not be a very pretty way of looking at it, but that's the way it is. without labor, more fodder is simply trained and put in place. without management the enterprise folds, labor ceases to exist and the entire business must be started from scratch.
this notion that all our efforts are of equal import is a load of crap. we are spoon-fed this pablum by the populist horde, but we know it's not true and we don't want it to be. we want to know that our ingenuity and our extra efforts may be rewarded. the very idea that a dock worker should be given the same esteem and perks as the people that oversee him and make his work possible runs contrary to maintaining a healthy and productive workforce. we need to know that the rigors and expense of our schooling, our years gaining expertise and even our natural talents may gain us some amount of security that is denied those who merely show up for work, limp along and collect their salary at the end of the week. we need to know that with added responsibility comes something better.
