If that's all a CEO was, then we'd have much more functional companies. But the CEO is also the top manager of the company and dictates policies that affect how the company is run. We're seeing specific examples of what is nothing short of labor abuse by executives such as Zuckerberg, Musk and Bezos. And they choose their policies for purely emotional reasons, as an expression of resentment and vindictiveness toward their own workforce.

In fact, this is the core of their fantasy regarding AI, that with enough R&D it will be cheap enough to replace their human staff entirely with robots, who don't have opinions and don't fight for better treatment.

If a company separated the executive suite from upper management, and instead had a brain trust to maximize profits by hard data and cold calculation, I submit human labor would be better treated, since well-treated workers operate at an improved rate of productivity, which actually makes it profitable to make sure they take their breaks and eat their lunches.

History shows us the ownership class always thinks their workers are willfully withholding effort, and as we've seen during the North Atlantic slave era, the ownership class will work labor to death if they are allowed to do so.