A happy, independent employee is a creative employee, and if your business is such a heavy monopoly that it’s in your interest (if not your primary market strat

A happy, independent employee is a creative employee, and if your business is such a heavy monopoly that it’s in your interest (if not your primary market strategy) to arrest and interrupt the development of competitive alternatives, keeping your employees in cycles of misery (long commutes, oral culture heavy on tribal knowledge and who-you-know) is no longer a “tradeoff” to be balanced, it’s how you keep competition from cropping up.