The amount of people that advocate in favour of master-servant mentality is appallingly high. No wonder there are so many that prefer working in human farms.

Indeed.

Not to mention that the company was already monitoring keystrokes and requiring screen sharing. This indeed is some slavery mindset.

> Definition of superior (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : situated higher up : UPPER 2 : of higher rank, quality, or importance

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superior

Boss is by definition superior to your position, not in a sense better, but higher.

not higher. the graph is topologically unchanged if you draw it with the CEO at the bottom, and so on.

don’t be hoodwinked by bad analogies, or the arbitrary demands of insecure narcissists

Well, I mean your boss can fire you from the company but you can not fire your boss from the company. So in that sense they are "superior".

Sorry, but no. That is a falsifiable statement in just about every respect and possible interpretation. The implied assumptions about everything from employment law to the notion that in all work environments everyone has a “boss”, let alone the meaning of that term, are far from universal.

The world just isn’t that limited, thankfully.

Tip: think about why you had to put “superior” in quotes.

Most certainly but that’s not the point. The point is that companies are organised so that division of labour is organised from a core group deciding the strategical priorities towards more specialised groups and ultimately line workers through levels of organisation making tasks more and more specific along the way. As a salaried worker, provided it was in your contract, you can’t entirely refuse to do what’s asked of you by the strata defining your work and expect to keep your position.

Thankfully, in Europe, unions have harshly fought for somewhat fair employment laws and this relationship only applies to actual work and not the whimsies of your boss.

I think you're right about things like chain of command; most companies are hierarchical in this way. But I think there's a fallacy that's widely believed that people "at the top" see things more clearly than those... not at the "top". I think we see very little no matter where we are, and we have to rely on each other to get the whole picture. To me, this indicates that a more flat structure makes sense: I'm good at the tech thing, you're good at the budgeting thing, if suddenly you stop being good at the budgeting thing I want someone else to do it, and vice versa.