Not to mention actively subverting people who want to achieve something, adding more load to the rest of the team and just being a motivation drain. I've worke

Not to mention actively subverting people who want to achieve something, adding more load to the rest of the team and just being a motivation drain. I've worked in a post socialist worker owned company where this culture existed - eg. a guy came to work doing nothing for 5 years because his role was obsolete, he was old and failed to retrain but was 5 years off retirement age, he was there all his life and family friends with middle management - so they covered for him. Coming in every day 8-4 doing nothing but web surfing in the corner of the office. Why should anyone else there do any work ? He wasn't the only one who got obsoleted with new tech, other people his age retrained successfully - he was a failure and he got rewarded. Plenty of situations like that in that company made me hate social criteria in work environment - even if I was required to do very little work and paid relatively well - I quit on my own because I wasn't able to accomplish almost anything significant in two years there even tough there were plenty of opportunities if the incentive structure was right. Leave social security to social services, UBI or whatever - don't screw with incentives or create blocks for people who actually want to do work. They did eventually fall apart in a few years when the political connections and money infusions dried out during the financial crisis.