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I've been thinking lately about jobs and motivation. Some people will always be unmotivated, that's an statistical fact. What about the rest?

I used to think that the relation between unmotivated employees and their corporation was "parasitic" but I'm switching to an alternate framework, less influenced by corporate narrative. Maybe unmotivated employees are the antibodies of society, infiltrating companies no longer serving a useful purpose. The company will fight with its most powerful weapon: money. But money is to happiness what sugar to nutrition and eventually the humanity inside people wins. I hope it cheers you up next time you feel down at work: you are still human, a soldier in this fight.

What is the solution? Of course I have answers for this (too). Destroy/split the companies. They accumulate too much money and power and have no idea how to spend it.

Regarding lawyers or accountants I think they should limit the duration of their careers. Maybe 20 years is the most a human being should be in that profession because it's obvious it has long term lasting effects. Now, I'm talking seriously here: we should promote career mobility.

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[...] a meta-culture of Darwinism in the economy: one based on job-hopping, mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, cataclysmic reorganizations, outsourcing, unforgiving start-up ecosystems, and brutal corporate raiding. In this terrifying meta-world of the Titans, the Organization Man became the Clueless Man. Today, any time an organization grows too brittle, bureaucratic and disconnected from reality, it is simply killed, torn apart and cannibalized, rather than reformed. The result is the modern creative-destructive life cycle of the firm, which I’ll call the MacLeod Life Cycle.