Wouldn't most employees fall under the first category, and managers and executives the next? And employees are paid to carry out goals. while employers take care of the organization and set the goals. With this modeling of the situation, the second group always had control to begin with. They're management.
And there's always corruption and politics where there are humans, be it in the mailroom or the boardroom.
> Wouldn't most employees fall under the first category,
Tell that to any college/university in the western world!
There's a reason tuitions have risen so high and it's largely been cited as the ratio of admins to teachers as being at least 10:1 when it used to be much closer.
I personally blame cheap gov subsidized credit for this quickly forming trend, which only took ~2 decades to have a devastating effect on students who come out of school without a degree which can somehow pay back such debt (which we in STEM are fortunate and I personally dropped out early).
And there's always corruption and politics where there are humans, be it in the mailroom or the boardroom.