Who is more important to "the company", the CEO or the janitor?
Well, if they both take 2 weeks holiday. No-one will even know the CEO is gone, but when the toilets don't get cleaned and all the bins fill up with rubbish, that's when you realise that the Janitor is worth as much, if not more, to the company than the CEO.
There is no person, in any company or organisation, who is actually more valuable than any other person. The organisation requires everyone to do their job well.
Top executives do NOT deserve more than the people doing the job.
I leaned towards your way of thinking twenty years ago when I was studying so I can empathise with your mindset. My thinking has changed over the years with the creeping realisation that human nature prevents workable systems being introduced to an organisation or country when the systems main premise is the idea that people are equal or that life should be fair. The main reason for this is that people are not equal, and life is not fair
