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To control the purse strings, which is why reminding them of your value is worthwhile to you. It is perhaps not fair, just, or efficient for them to be in that
by scubbo 3y ago
To control the purse strings, which is why reminding them of your value is worthwhile to you.
It is perhaps not fair, just, or efficient for them to be in that position - but they _are_, and acting holier-than-thou because _you_ can see that the Emperor has no clothes will not be beneficial to you.
- nine_zeros 3y ago> To control the purse strings, which is why reminding them of your value is worthwhile to you. If purse strings are the only reason for engineers to listen to management, is it any surprise that people don't respect managers? Imagine you were a soldier at a war. Who do you feel inspired to listen to? A man on a mission who will share the treasure equitably or the man controlling the purse alone but is uninspiring?
- scubbo 3y agoI don't think this conversation is going to go anywhere productive. You're responding to practical advice ("because the world is in one particular configuration, you can accrue benefit to yourself by acting in a particular way") by idealism ("but the world _shouldn't_ be that particular way"). I don't have any particular disagreement with anything you're saying (well, except perhaps the claim that personal inspiration is necessary, or even reasonable to expect, in the workplace - which is not a battlefield, and should not resemble one), but it's also not a useful response to the point being made.
- gymbeaux 3y agoManagers are often like Vorta (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). The Jem’hadar obey and grind literally to death, and in exchange the Vorta give them a little bit of a drug to keep them from feeling like shit. Man that’s probably a metaphor for capitalism. We grind and grind for money so that we can immediately spend the money so that we can grind and grind (eg need a car to go to work and now I need to go to work to pay for the car I need to go to work).