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Comment by dymk | Hacker News Reader

Right, because those 50,000 employees were making the major directional decisions for the company, not the C level execs

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Directional decisions aren't the only important decisions.

And, yes: Non-C-level execs make directional decisions all the time. Especially in a company the size of Aetna.

If you get the big decisions correct, then your company can survive many incorrect small decisions.

If you get the big decisions incorrect, then your company will not survive even if all the small decisions are correct.

    [citation needed]

The only reason those people are able to contemplate such decisions is because of the thousands of workers supporting the enterprise.

And the only reason those thousands of people are able to support the enterprise is because of the top level executives making sure the business stays on track

Can you quantify the ratio of payment vs. the ratio of contribution? And the amount of supply vs demand for 2 groups?

No rationalization about value can ever hide the obvious and deep-rooted lord / serf dynamic.

You claim there is a lord/serf dynamic. Let's take that a step further. Let's free the "serfs" by removing every lord from power today. Now, we have just lost all of our experts in managing large companies, and global competitors come in and take over the markets our own companies used to control. Now you work for them, instead of for our own companies, because you still have to make money. Do you think that your Chinese or Israeli lords are better than the American ones?

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