But it's also hard to rule out how immensely self-fulfilling these systems are. We've all grown up in systems that implicitly (and often explicitly) make it clear that these people at the top earned it, or are indeed necessary, and that means people assume it's correct. I don't think those myths, or the systems that sustain them, originally came about from people who 'don't want to be in charge of themselves', but rather from the men with big sticks who wanted them to be like that.