If he built all the systems and especially the cash cow, isn&#x27;t that some objective measure that he&#x27;s more valuable than the average employee?<p>Maybe he&#x27;s messy, but nobody pays the janitor millions of dollars to clean up everyone else&#x27;s messes even if they tell themselves he&#x27;s important. Rather, they pay the people who made it worth cleaning up the building in the first place.