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What do you mean by "corporation?" C-suite execs? Management? Corporations are entities, so anthropomorphization without specification can muddle the point you

• kelseyfrog 3y ago
  The idea GP is expressing is that when a boss says, "I value your loyalty," and a friend says, "I value your loyalty," one is manipulative and the other isn't[1]. The former exploits human biases and the latter doesn't. Specifically "corporations doing <X>," is always shorthand for "people doing <X>, " where X is aligned with corporate interests. 1. We can imagine scenarios where the converse is true, but what I'm talking about is that hearing this in a corporate setting significantly shifts the priors. Individual experience doesn't invalidate the claim.
• atoav 3y ago
  I don't think it muddles my point at all. The corporation acting as an entity is part of the problem — if company culture, your manager, or whoever demands loyalty to that entity, that always will be a hollow promise no matter who asked for it, because an entity cannot return that loyalty. Corporate entities of a certain size are like superorganisms — their main goal is survival and for that they will shed the cells that make them work if it benefits them. You can be loyal to people within those corporations, but even they can be forced to break that loyalty towards you to safe their skin. Saying all of this I think true loyalty can be found at work. Just not beyond a certain organizational scale or at a very limited interpersonal level.