It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his
salary depends on his not understanding it!—Upton Sinclair,
I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got
Licked
It's almost as if there's an entire class of (inordinately wealthy) people who have no reason to exist in the capacity that they do.
CEO's are so important to the functioning of a product that they don't even have to fucking understand the product itself. Why not give them shitloads of money?