Every job I have ever been on, the real costs walked on two legs.
And the most expensive in terms of their compensation and the mistakes they made are the legs wearing suits.
It appears to me that there are a lot of lazy, incompetent executives right now who have obtained profits because of a weak labor market and/or vicious labor arbitrage through imports and outsourcing. Now that we are slowly reacquiring a real economy, they will have to actually learn how to run their companies successfully by improving productivity when they are not receiving direct or indirect subsidies through bad immigration policies and a "free" trade regime. Or they will be sacked after running their companies into the ground.