Pretty much every company I’ve been in or know of values a vertical trajectory instead of a horizontal one for its employees i.e becoming a manager nearly always means a faster salary progression than becoming an expert in one or multiple fields.
Why is expertise valued less?
Because it takes a lot more than expertise to get anything done at large scale.
That doesn’t explain why leadership is valued more.
That’s an argument for both existing. Without leadership the expertise won’t be harnessed, without expertise, leadership means nothing.
Putting it this way, project management is a skill that requires expertise. Lots of Laborers have the expertise to be the subcontractor, not all of them succeed at being the contractor/foreman.
The majority of disfunction in workplaces seems to be that the middle managers don’t have the skills to be there either or they’d have probably been promoted up the ladder even further already
I agree with you that exec compensation is nuts and most exec leaders arent all that unusually skilled.
That’s not what I’m saying there at all…
Edit: geezus I just realized you’re the person lacking reading comprehension from another thread. That explains why you added arguments here I’m not making.
I’m out here as well
Oh hi guy from other thread who was claiming young people are generally fascists. To be clear, you followed me here and replied to my comment. So please feel free to go wherever you like, I dont particularly care.