It's funny how management figures often appoint themselves "above" the actual value-producing actors in a business. I myself am a software developer working in a European country, and I've been in many situations where we have "work" coming out our ears and these "business" types have us frequently run ragged getting us to "do whatever it takes" to "get it over the line" [Quotes in this sentence not meant to convey my contempt for work/business/delivery, more that how these terms are often loosely interpreted] - only then to never get paid. And never mind the costs associated with this: Up front development, deployment costs, support costs - the last two for instance often greatly inflated because of short cuts taken in the first.

I'm all for management, and "good management" at that - as a business owner I would welcome increased competition for management positions also. All to often you just have to take the people you can get for these roles, and all to frequently they're just guys with "business degrees" (or worse, failed engineers - the "Peter Principle" comes to mind) with little management talent.

The point that western workers are overpaid is particularly grandiose, since I've seen a number of statistics recently that describe how management grades in particular have enjoyed a fine increase over the last ten years or so, relative to the rest of the workforce.

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/03...

- http://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/03/pay-gap-between-bosses-and-wo...

- http://www.haygroup.com/en/press/pay-gap-between-senior-mana...

- http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/not-so-fast-those-r...