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It’s because they can. Decency and fairness are immaterial in the context of profit. The only correcting force in my opinion would be a strong union. But union
by andrei_says_ 3y ago
It’s because they can. Decency and fairness are immaterial in the context of profit.
The only correcting force in my opinion would be a strong union. But unionizing is quite risky and legitimately scary for highly paid employees.
Thus, divided we fall.
- zmgsabst 3y agoNo they’re not. People clearly play the Iterated Prisoners Dilemma even in contexts where they’ve been intentionally isolated and freed from context (eg, psychology experiments) because we’ve evolved a group mentality — one that encodes game theory optima as a primal impulse. Corporate leaders who forget that tend to blow their own company up, when humans instinctually repay defection with defection — as cold, hard math dictates they should. We’ve seen many examples, in different context - from pay withholding to marketing campaigns that denigrate customers. Fighting human nature is stupidity.