If that worker has a pension or 401k, then it does matter. The fleecing isn't directly from him, but aggregate it by "managerial class" and "middle class" and you see the high $ managerial cash flows are directly at the expense of the middle class and retirement of the middle class. Thru in some tax policy, and you can see it is also taking money away from education of young middle class folks, and investment in communal things like roads and public health and so on.