> It's honestly stuff like this that makes me feel like the only sane person around.

You're not.

> If the CEO is pushing for it, the employees will all smile and nod and go along with the crowd,

I don't know what to say. There are more kinds of working relationships than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Not everybody lives in fear of their CEO.

> You can sing the happiness song and do all the lets-be-friends dances but at the end of the day we're people competing for resources

Sure, but some of us cooperate with others in order to compete with everyone else, and that's good enough.