True believers (or, at least, people who have figured out that their odds of survival are improved on playing the fool and seeming to be one) are way more than

True believers (or, at least, people who have figured out that their odds of survival are improved on playing the fool and seeming to be one) are way more than 20 percent of corporate workers. They're probably 70-80 percent (with an unknown contingent of that set being smart people who are simply good at pretending to buy in). This is counterbalanced by the fact that true believers tend to be not very smart and, therefore, incompetent. So it feels like only 20% of the company buys into the false consciousness, just because the people who really do tend to be the inherently ineffective ones: if someone who is not pulling 7 figures per year genuinely loves his corporate job--i.e., his position of having to sacrifice more than half his life to do paperwork for rich people--he is probably not very bright and it is borderline miraculous that he functions at all.