"many people in this country have never had to do their jobs and do them well for a boss they dislike, even despise".

I hadn't thought of it that way.  

I outlasted a few in the military just because the system has 'the boss' rotate about every three years or so.  

The inability to  respond to a couple of them even verbally (There is no 'Free Speech' in the military!) is one reason I tend to be somewhat pugnacious here at CC.  

Twenty years of "biting your tongue" gets old!