There are a lot of answers here that say "there are so many worse jobs, and I've done some of them, so be grateful for the comparatively cushion job you have".

There are a lot of answers here that say "there are so many worse jobs, and I've done some of them, so be grateful for the comparatively cushion job you have". I can understand this, and it is great to have people working for you who are willing to push through whatever shit you give them. On the other hand, great people really are about bending the context space to make seemingly large distances become small distances. Then you don't have to push through as much shit as you thought in the beginning. You don't want to lose the second kind of people by creating work environments in which only the first kind of people can thrive.