Political Controversy Around Employers And Employees

The workplace is a part of life where certain fallacious stereotypes, as all stereotypes are fallacious thanks to all of them sharing the fallacy of composition and non sequiturs, flourish, with some people making positive or negative assumptions about others based on whether they are a "low-level" worker or in a more managerial position.  It is quite popular to stir up misunderstandings by pitting these two groups against each other.  In some situations, there is reason for an employer or employee to criticize, push back against, or even somewhat harshly call out the other party, but conservatives and liberals, in their typically inverse ways, encourage this even when there is nothing one could rationally object to.

Conservatives might look at employees with automatic suspicion, assuming that they are "entitled," lazy, incompetent, or in need of surrendering all of their free time to their professional lives (liberals could as well, but they are more likely to assume that workers are inherently victims and that employers are oppressors).  Employees who even rightly criticize their employers might be perceived as ungrateful or selfish people who are unwilling to work thoroughly in order to make a living.  The selective authoritarianism of conservatism rears its head here, conflicting with the otherwise regular tendency for them to praise freedom from authorities over them.

Liberals are more likely to think some of the opposite ideas.  They might look at employers, except perhaps in the case of small businesses, with automatic suspicion, assuming that having managerial power means someone is cruel, abusive, and eager to underpay employees while hoarding profits for himself or herself.  Employers will be hated by some liberals no matter how they actually treat their employees simply because of stereotypes or because they have greater workplace authority than their workers.  Instead of truly avoiding biases, liberals have a tendency to make assumptions about those with corporate authority.

As with so many other issues, conservatives snd liberals miss so much of the truth about the core nature of being an employer and employee--that is, not the assumed stereotypes or individualistic traits, but the concept of actually being an employer or employee in itself--because they make the errors opposite to the errors of the other side.  It is demonstrably true that being on either broad side of the hierarchy within a company does not make one monstrous or unintelligent--or a victim of someone else within the company.  Delusional philosophical ideas or political gain is the only reason why someone would believe or promote these stances.

Corporate leadership and employees alike could be rational, caring, competent people who are not seeking to exploit or deceive each other.  Someone from either group could be irrational, selfish, or lazy, or their worldviews and actions could take them in a very different direction.  None of these traits are present just because of how much power they have inside a company.  Political controversy has many people eager to merely oppose what someone else says that they make similar or even categorically identical mistakes, which they of course cling to for the sake of opposing someone else instead of understanding truth.  The two political parties with the most prominence are slaves to mirror fallacies.