> Look, society for a while now has been incentivizing a “fuck you got mine” attitude in workers at all levels that has fostered immense dysfunction in work, governance, and society itself. We reward exceptional individualism and punish any sort of community action that doesn’t do the same.

From what I can see, this attitude has become widespread specifically because our societies aren't holding the rich accountable for anything, so why should we play nice if they won't?

I recently left a company where WHO made the decisions became more important than if they were good decisions or not. An active board had different goals than company leadership, burned through 3 CEOs, 3 COOs, 4 CFOs, and 4 HR chiefs in 18 months, and refused to listen to anyone inside the company when the board plans failed. Why so many C suites? Board would demand we do X, so we'd do X even though it was a bad idea, it failed, and then we'd fix it, do extremely well, and then the board would demand another change.

After 2 years of that, the board started firing C-suite and telling the replacements that the plan was to try Plan X, but not let on it had been tried 2 times before. Plan X would fail, there's be a C-suite sacking, replaced with a new group, and they'd try Plan X again. Repeat until we had tried Plan X 5 different times with 3 different sets of C-suite in 3 years.

In December the PE firm got tired of waiting for results and is selling off that company at a fire sale. My equity is worthless. Everyone's equity is worthless. The managing director got a $14m parachute with his pink slip.

I did everything right, and I got screwed. This is why line workers are adopting that attitude.