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Pulling together all the resources and ideas to make something happen is itself a valid skill. They're way overpaid for it, but it is real work.
Steve Jobs, in particular, created with help the original Mac and was screwed over by other powerful people in the business. He created the Mach kernel and the NeXT workstation before Apple crawled back to him for help salvaging the business.
He might have been an arrogant prick, but he did have the ability to bring vision into reality, and he helped make a lot of people other than himself wealthy.
We have this thing called specialization in modern society. Do you think an electrician can design and produce a microchip or a math teacher can manage a large corporate entity? We all make choices. Some of us have more options or more help.
The accountants and lawyers pull together resources to make something happen, and are the ones that do all of the math and all the legal research to see if something can happen, the one that barked the order didn't. And as for ideas, the world would be a better place if that was left to the scientists, developers, craftspeople, and engineers that have the beneficial ones that might actually create or improve something of worth.
"Turn a product you could buy into a subscription you have to rent" has been the most widely implemented "idea" the modern CEO has been inspired to have, aside from laying off the people that made them their money the same week they report record profits. If you call that a skill of any positive use to society, then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
And Steve jobs wasn't just a shitty marketing grifter who pretended he was some titan of invention, he was also a notoriously shitty person off the clock. It's sad people look up to a wealthy man who let his child subsist on welfare simply because he could.