I disagree with the author that normal people don't think this way. Most people I know won't go out of their way to help their employer. In my experience you

I disagree with the author that normal people don't think this way. Most people I know won't go out of their way to help their employer. In my experience you can usually find a few people who care about doing things right and they work hard, are passionate, go above and beyond, etc. Almost everyone else is in a different lane. Some are in the far right lane, where they cleverly exploiting things (as a few people mentioned in the article) but most are somewhere in between. I don't think there is really anything you could do about it. Mostly people don't want to work. They do work for money. They won't do more work than they need to because they don't want to do that. These people also don't want to expend more energy than they have to. They won't do something hard that solves the problem if doing something easy won't get them in too much trouble.