> Emplyoment in general only works because the employees in many cases actually care about the quality of their work and not only about themselves I do see wha

> Emplyoment in general only works because the employees in many cases actually care about the quality of their work and not only about themselves I do see what you're saying, but I don't think that quality of work and caring about oneself only are mutually exclusive. You can care about the quality of your work without really caring about the fate of a particular company. Employees with great output are in high demand, so you know that you can just continue somewhere else. I happen to care about the quality of my work and the company, but even then, the company's future (unless I own it) comes way below my own needs (thinking of my family here in particular). I don't think it's possible to make a significant portion of your workforce altruistically care about the company. Hence, the original commenter's suggestion is that managers are responsible for correctly incentivizing workers.