Your mistake is believing you and the CEO are similar. You are only both employees in that you can both be removed from a position.
You are a resource. He is a point of connection to resources.
You are a resource. He is a point of connection to resources.
All I am getting is “you’re getting conned, he is the conman.”
What do you want to be?
Source: Been there, doing that
My point is not about relative contributions of value necessarily, which are difficult to compare, but about the structure of employment. The value of a CEO who is doing a good job is not measured by the number of hours they spend on a project. They cannot iterate on solutions the way an engineer can.
The skillset and behavior are different at the meta, macro and micro levels.