You know, I can’t even respond to this without great anger, because it’s so damn true. Don’t forget now too, that upper management can break the law, or be drug addicts and not lose their jobs like ‘lower’ workers would. Perhaps some of my points are off topic, but I think they’re related regardless.
Not only do I blame snotty white collar upper tier folks for the downfall of their own companies (who don’t seem to care as long as they’re compensated), but I also blame useless people involved in the hiring process for the supposed skills gap in many employment sectors too.
The fact is many companies are filled with people who don’t have the knowledge or technical know-how to hire the most competent people for many skilled positions. Political correctness in the hiring process has also lead to employers eliminating many decent employees while hiring screwballs or unskilled people. Perhaps in some fields there is a shortage of qualified workers, but from my own personal experience employers are simply rejecting qualified workers for lame reasons like employment gaps, assessment tests, a past minor offense, a single job termination and even overqualification.
In due time even the cushioned ones will lose their mattresses, because wealthy people only have money due to a greater collective. Rewarding unproductive people while punishing the productive ones will always inevitably come back to bite any corporation, union or other entity. I also blame the downfall of many companies on the indifference upper management seems to demonstrate concerning what their lower management and employees are doing too.
With all things considered even, like after an apocalyptic type of event, it would be the useless bureaucrats who would be of least value. In the end it’s only people who give others value, this including currency, when a system is set up to be a certain way, but with anarchy it would be a different ballgame, because money and precious metals/jewelry would have much less value than food, water and skills.