bureaucracy:

• The mandarin is always over-impressed with his own intelligence, even if his role doesn’t involve using it.
• Bureaucrats are also almost universally reviled for their lack of accountability and the lack of pride in their work.
• Jobs was an arch bureaucrat; he innovated absolutely nothing, but he was excellent at running a bureaucracy and making it do useful things through terror and bullying. He was also a good salesman. Woz was the main innovator and probably has two standard deviations more intellectual horsepower than Jobs did.
• Bureaucrats are socially necessary.

In the end the power and glory of a bureaucrat comes from the ignorance of his believers. Both are still only bricks of a pyramid, even though they might appear of different quality.