No One Actually Wants an Equal Society

[Pat Mustard]

For me, the most powerful equaliser is the demonstration that no end is achievable if you remove any critical point of added value. A company requires a CEO however without a salesman, the CEO has nothing but a corporate shell; the salesman is nothing without those creating the product; groups of people, working together, require managers to help them organise effort but without the work, management is meaningless; an office may provide a suitable place for work to be carries out but without sanitation, the workforce will quickly fall ill and inoperative. There are countless examples of this however we continue to consider the CEO as more important than a cleaner. The phrase I use to counter that perspective is that 'all work of value is of equal value' consequently, given the value provided by a process or set of processes, all participants should be equally rewarded.

Office Cleaner is a low-skilled/unskilled role, A salesman requires a particular personality type and a CEO requires a specialised skill set and thus determines a differentiation in the rate of remuneration.
ergo; minimum wage, commission based and salary respectively.

Considering that most companies will retain their CEO and pay his bonuses no matter how bad his performance whereas the cleaner will be sacked (well, not be given any more assingments as they're probably going to be legally a sole trader subcontractor of a company hired by the CEO to provide the service) for even the smallest deviation from the expected job, I would rate the cleaner's job to be more skillful.