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<blockquote data-quote="GT777733" data-source="post: 1206624" data-attributes="member: 13957"><p>Thank you for sharing your honest feedback - I appreciate it.</p><p></p><p>What you described is what I realised at about 22/23, and it was probably the first red pill I ever had to swallow about the world.</p><p></p><p>The company and corporate game when it comes to rewards is significantly more about company/office politics, appearing to look and sound competent, how much your boss likes you and how good/quick you are at getting into managerial positions where you can delegate work and responsibility than it is about actual competence, performance, or sacrificing for the company.</p><p></p><p>I just couldn't end up taking part in a game like that for my entire life (it's almost necessary while you are young to build some finances and a monetary safety blanket). But, I can see why people do and I don't hold it against them - it is the game we are all pushed into from school or university after all. For some people (and probably most to be fair), they just can't see a way out of it or don't believe they can get out of it. That, or you get to a point in your 30's where you're in a senior position and the reward to ride it out until your mid 40's and even beyond is just too great to pass up compared to throwing that all a way and taking a risk on doing your own thing (like you expressed). It's human nature.</p><p></p><p>There is some level of acceptance I have for this when the company actually performs a practical service or offers a practical product, and the company is at a smaller size so that there is some level of accountability among all workers and employees.</p><p></p><p>But, holy cow - I've seen some things that go on with some mid size and large size companies, and in dodgy companies and industries (or the dodgy parts of some industries like finance and law for example), where the bad s*it that is being done to game the system is magnified (because of the size of the company and their resources), and what you end up with is a big money making machine that spreads very little wealth and/or offers very little value back. There's also usually a gross amount of negligence from middle and upper management at these companies.</p><p></p><p>Companies are what humans allow them to be at the end of the day - we create, work in and buy from companies and the economy - it's not the other way around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GT777733, post: 1206624, member: 13957"] Thank you for sharing your honest feedback - I appreciate it. What you described is what I realised at about 22/23, and it was probably the first red pill I ever had to swallow about the world. The company and corporate game when it comes to rewards is significantly more about company/office politics, appearing to look and sound competent, how much your boss likes you and how good/quick you are at getting into managerial positions where you can delegate work and responsibility than it is about actual competence, performance, or sacrificing for the company. I just couldn't end up taking part in a game like that for my entire life (it's almost necessary while you are young to build some finances and a monetary safety blanket). But, I can see why people do and I don't hold it against them - it is the game we are all pushed into from school or university after all. For some people (and probably most to be fair), they just can't see a way out of it or don't believe they can get out of it. That, or you get to a point in your 30's where you're in a senior position and the reward to ride it out until your mid 40's and even beyond is just too great to pass up compared to throwing that all a way and taking a risk on doing your own thing (like you expressed). It's human nature. There is some level of acceptance I have for this when the company actually performs a practical service or offers a practical product, and the company is at a smaller size so that there is some level of accountability among all workers and employees. But, holy cow - I've seen some things that go on with some mid size and large size companies, and in dodgy companies and industries (or the dodgy parts of some industries like finance and law for example), where the bad s*it that is being done to game the system is magnified (because of the size of the company and their resources), and what you end up with is a big money making machine that spreads very little wealth and/or offers very little value back. There's also usually a gross amount of negligence from middle and upper management at these companies. Companies are what humans allow them to be at the end of the day - we create, work in and buy from companies and the economy - it's not the other way around. [/QUOTE]
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