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It's actually hard to find people who will reliably break unions, and generally do whatever it takes to de-prioritize line workers and eliminate "cost centers" - while also showing pure allegiance to the board without defecting.

That's the entire process of creating the professional corporate managerial class - you have reliably shown that you care more about the financial success of the company, and yourself, than you care for your employees and coworkers.

I mean how many movies and characters have we made that are precisely calling out this exact behavior:

Gordon Gekko

Bill Lumburgh

Mr "Coffee is for closers" Blake

Richard Chesler (Fight Club boss)

etc...

Like...we've been roasting this precise kind of corporate myopic psychopathic forever as what precisely not to be yet it's like an entire generation used them as pathfinders




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