I do thinl there is an element of empathy that has been stripped away from the military as it has modernized. The same is true for startups as they have moderni

I do thinl there is an element of empathy that has been stripped away from the military as it has modernized. The same is true for startups as they have modernised. Before, the commander was the first in and last man out of battle (the article's "lead by example") now we have smooth talking presidents sending young men to die in a suit and tie. Napoleon would have none of that. Likewise, whereas before startups genuinely tried to do good (google "dont be evil", staying out of China, game devs creating worlds like 2nd life etc); nowadays startups actively find ways to treat you as the product, to be sold to the highest bidder and you are just a number on some dashboard, that must be enticed to engage. See Google, Zynga, FB, etc . Empathy has gone missing and this is not a particular problem for startups or military. There are too many degrees of separation between the ruler and the ruled. Between the doer and the consumer. As that distance increases, we also lose connection to what matters. The incompetent are shmoozing themselves into power, and this phenomena is not specific to 1 part of society