Air Profit raises a very good point.
N1 Vibes reminds us that to run a railroad we also need engineering backing and the whole backing of all other company staff!
As aircrew we need to play the assets we have in hand and sometimes we must very quickly make decisions that may/will involve injury and loss of life.
This ability to quickly make these time critical decisions also implies that we must ignore how those asset cards arrived in our hands.
In essence, our time-critical decision making ability can and must blind us to all the work that the company has put behind the effort in making the flight sector possible.
However, in the long run, the background infrastructure and manpower that enabled the operation in the first place, must equally share in the rewards.
OTOH, we can all agree that there are certain management fawkwits who are parasitic on the system and should be eliminated.