Memes

It shows maturity to understand multiple competing viewpoints. People-managers have limited budgets. Most of them are doing their best, fighting their hardest for their people, doing their best Ted Lasso impression. But they have a hard enough time getting pay increases to just keep up with inflation.

That’s what can be so evil about corporations. Individual good people, doing their best within the limits imposed upon them, can be assembled into a giant engine of evil. The whole capitalism thing assumes each competing business can rise or fall according to merit and need. But I don’t believe it works.

Posted from the comfort of a comfy software development job with a high salary, in support of a company creating wealth by extracting it from a captive customer base. And that’s the other evil part: make slightly more than 50% of us happy, so we can be content while the other 50% is treated so unfairly.

Don’t forget to be kind and compassionate though. I’m serious. Making life hell for the managers who care, because of things like this they can’t control, isn’t the way to change things for the better.