Both hands are required to clap, and frankly workers play their own games too. The vast majority of folks have no issues enabling terrible situations for a paycheck, and pretending to work isn’t exactly new either.
>The vast majority of folks have no issues enabling terrible situations for a paycheck
Is it really "enabling" when there's a metaphorical (and often literal, in the case of police) gun to one's head? Most of us can't opt out of this arrangement, and that's by design. There isn't even a "run away into the forest" option, because all the forests are already owned by someone. Being homeless is effectively illegal. Being dispossessed in general is illegal, even though the system is predicated on dispossessing the populace to enrich those at the top.
It's less like a dysfunctional relationship and more like a hostage situation. Don't blame the hostages, please.
Agreed, the power we have must be exercised. Use it or lose it. There are more of us than there are of them, but getting started is the hard part. It's a tall order to ask someone to stick their neck out first.
I'll stop here as HN is not the place to plan a revolution :)
What's my incentive to take the considerable effort, burn what political capital I may have, and use my little spare energy to overcome the enertia of the terrible situation? I save the company 400k by eleminating unnecessary services. Great a challenge coin. I'll remember this next time you ask for savings opportunities or volunteers.
It may be worth considering overlap with burnout, and how staying (without really considering other options or addressing the underlying things going on personally) ends up damaging the person who stays.
