Individualized compensation and treating everyone like expendable faceless factory workers instead of teams of professional hired to work together on solving pr

Individualized compensation and treating everyone like expendable faceless factory workers instead of teams of professional hired to work together on solving problems seems to me to be the real problem today, not a solution. We're supposed to work on really difficult problems, but we're not given the freedom and resources to think and collaborate in meaningful ways to solve problems. Instead it's a constant push for individuals to sit alone and display how productive they each are, alone, at completing jira tickets. Managers care more about being able to measure individual performance than about actual results. If they cared about results they would allow teams to work as teams. Agile had a lot of good ideas, but I never saw any of it lead to anything good in reality.