To the extent that markets are efficient, they’ll be replaced by companies who are willing to dump employees when it’s not profitable to keep them. That’s the

To the extent that markets are efficient, they’ll be replaced by companies who are willing to dump employees when it’s not profitable to keep them. That’s the system we’ve chosen for ourselves so far. To the extent that some companies are loyal represents a market failure. TBH, I’ll take a safety net and free education to re-train in a new industry any day of the week over a boss doing me favors and making me feel like i owe favors too. Our economy is beyond bartering and favor systems. Keep personal relationships for personal time and work relationships at work time. I’ll be friends with my peers, i don’t need to be friends with the boss. Any contractual relationship has a transactional side. And an employer-employee relationship is asymmetrical in a way that will always impact things, and make it impossible for a 100% human relationship to form. Any attempt is like a Frankenstein version of a real friendship. If you want to be friends, it requires equal footing, that means equity and partnerships.