• astronaut_sloth@mander.xyzEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I’ve been doing some thinking about this recently, and I think it comes from two places. One is the easily spotted malice toward workers and stepping on them (à la Elon). The other for managers and the like who are not straight up sociopaths is that a lot of these people have no meaning in their lives and have never really done anything they really believe in (or bleed for that matter). So, they try to derive meaning from their relatively boring, unimportant job, and try to get others into it like they are. They’re starved for camaraderie by the very job they’ve invested their entire lives in. It’s sad really.

    • peach@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      I read a while back that this is due to capitalism having ameliorated most production / operatioal inefficiencies. Now younger companies have to rely on people’s ‘self-improvement’ and ‘dedication’ (ie. unpaid overtime, useless motivational speeches,…) to beat their competition.

      When Ford implemented mass production, they gained a competitive advantage that didn’t rely on any individual worker being extremely good at what they do. Same with McDonalds: The burger flipper doesn’t matter to be successful, the system of delivery is what matters.

      But when you’re developing the 900th dating app, there isn’t really much to innovate if you want to play it safe, so you just tell people that they have to be(-come) extremely good, quick, etc. at what they do and make personal growth one of your company principles.

    • f43r05@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      You mean your job isn’t your entire reason for existence? You must be lazy. /s