It works that way already, just not in the way you seem to expect. If there's a meeting with IT people, the guy in the suit is sucking up to the guy in jeans, turtleneck shirt, or whatever. Not the other way around.
You realise there are different tiers of "guys in suits", no? A business suit isn't like a T-shirt, there's a lot more complexity and room for diversity.
Or, if they're consultants working in the same company, the guy in the suit is telling the other guy why he should dress like him even if it's the fucking summer, there's 40 degrees C outside and you need to have the AC wasting lots of energy so that the suit guys are comfortable, at the expense of course of the people who dress appropriately (for the weather at least) sneezing non-stop. The other guy in the meeting is the one who doesn't give a fuck.
Think of it as a uniform. Your opinion about it is entirely irrelevant.
By these standards Jobs and Gates are both slobs.
Yes, yes they are.
Is it really too much to ask that people dress in a way that makes it possible to estimate their financial standing without direct contact?
If Apple were to be the first to market with a contact lens hud system like this, and did it by a few years, wouldn't you have to say that perhaps they figured out how to make it work and deserve some reward for that?
Yeah, the "few years" of being the only company to sell those. Past that, once other companies reach the same capabilities and technologies, it should be fair game, otherwise you're just punishing them for not being Apple.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
