Nothing spells "hubris" like a little success with a swollen ego.
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I'm not sure whether you're talking about the parent poster, or their boss, or both. I kind of agree with 'both'. But isn't that how it's meant to work? Business is business and personal is personal and you keep them separate?
Agreed. Thinking about it any other way is what I would consider insane. Only thinking the "business" is allowed to be a greedy bastard is what leads to income inequality. If the employee doesn't assert their own worth, no one else will. You can't be "business" on one end and "personal/loyal" on the other. You'll get used, abused and see no rewards.
I dunno somewhere out there is a healthy business social structure where employees are serving companies and companies are looking out for them as well, and maybe companies like Google have it. But we are far away in our business landscape from those waters in the majority of companies. It's an assumption from both sides that everyone is out to get the other. And therefore everyone acts as if that's the only way things can be. Though it's not the case. But the problem is that people are trained in this sort of environment so that's all that they know.
In spirit I completely agree with you, but I disagree about your notion that your version can exist. Maybe you, me and a bunch of other people could do it this way, but it only takes a few to break that system, which is how it is now.
Yeah I agree, that's why idealism fails a lot more often than rationalism and that rationalists have been much more successful than idealists in running the world and getting to actually produce.