Leadership of a company often involves a lot of work. The leadership of a company involves high level planning ahead and seeing new trends that may affect the company and much more.
I do not believe that the model of a mustache twitching owner who does no work at all, just milks the workers is the norm. Unless you mean shareholders.But not all companies have those
Capitalism doesn't have freedom or democracy, its freedom for capitalist only. Its reason why we have double standards in society, why we have deep state & "Socialism" for rich only.