• JillyB ( JillyB@beehaw.org ) 
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    5 hours ago

    Businesses also make those people. Once they align your incentives toward making the company the most profit, you will gradually become an out-of-touch weirdo that fetishizes productivity and thinks empathy is weakness.

    • spankysalmon ( spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ) 
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      3 hours ago

      Again, who sets those expectations and hammers them into employees?

      It’s not “businesses”. It’s business people. It’s MBAs. It’s c-suits. Stop making it sound like some machine with no face. Whether you mean to or not, that makes it harder for some to actually see the problem.