Whatever that was my memory I cant be arsed arguing over the specifics since you dont give a fuck anyway <| sep |> I agree . The would be first on my list <| sep |> Actually ? Yes . The the CEO ' s job is literally the supervision of execution to take the will of the Board and make it so . The COO ' s job is to run the operational part of GM part that actually produces things , the CFO ' s job is to track and report the financials as well as advise the Board and CEO on courses of action . They aren ' t just smoking cigars and playing golf with the monopoly man all day . While you and I may agree these functions are labor , because they ' re hired by capitalists , they ' re also capitalists because their compensation is equity in the company . Many businesses have CTOs tech officers and CIOs information officers who ensure companies have access to things like an intranet and databases . Many of these functions can be accomplished at a local level by a handful of foremen or managers , but it gets remarkably more complex when geographically separate locations need to work together to achieve a corporate strategy . IRT civil servants dealing with a legislature . I spent two years at US AFRICOM doing exactly this . I wasn ' t a legislative aide , either . I was developing a communications capability for intelligence sharing which required tens of millions in funding over 5 years to implement . I met with House and Senate Armed Srrvices Committee staffers on a weekly basis to justify costs for an upcoming budget . Why was I doing this ? Because Congress gave the CEO of AFRICOM a mandate , and his interpretation of it involved my project . He had 8 other departments to supervise , and I was just one of 40 people in my branch there were 20 other branches like mine with different objectives in just my Department . So the boss has a fuck ton of people to supervise , he delegates decisionmaking down to us and that included occasional interaction with Congress since he ' s not qualified to speak on the technical details of intel sharing or high bandwidth satellite communications in Africa .