Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Corporations Almost Certainly Do Not Care

A company leader almost certainly does not care that your friendships or marriage will suffer or not be fully enjoyed due to long hours in the workplace.  They are very likely unconcerned with whether or not you receive adequate sleep or have enough money to do anything more than barely survive in the context of modern civilization.  It might have never even occurred to them that perhaps you will descend into depression, constant psychological tension, or suicidal attitudes because of the inherent drudgery and hopelessness of many jobs and what is often ultimately the threat of starvation or homelessness for those who are not compliant.  They are fixated almost inevitably, almost exclusively on things like the thrill of wielding power in an authoritarian, egoistic way and on the social constructs of company policy or money.

Pleasing or appeasing other people like themselves, taking power for the sake of power, cultivating an illusory reputation, and disregarding reason whenever it is personally convenient is what defines a great many people in the workplace.  The latter thing is precisely why they care about reputation or power or money over abstract philosophical (logical) truths to begin with!  As a worker, your ability to make money, and thus to afford things like housing, transportation, food, water, and electricity, among other things, is in their hands, and they could easily exploit this.  Many managers/employers do.  It is always more likely that any talk they have about caring for others is a facade unless they specifically talk like rationalists and do not treat others slanderously, hypocritically, or emotionalistically.

If a manager does say anything suggesting they are not this sort of selfish, power-drunk fool, they are still likely just submitting to social pressure, legal norms, conscience rather than strict reason and what reason reveals.  None of these other things matter in the slightest.  No one is good for abiding by their personal feelings or yielding to cultural constructs rather than to logical necessity and moral obligation.  In fact, this is what makes someone an irrationalist one kind or another.  Believing or acting contrarily to this in any way makes someone irrationalistic no matter their motives, feelings, or life circumstances.  A rationalist will almost always be surrounded by idiots who do not so much as understand why they are not bowing down to social norms and personal preferences of other people who do not know logical axioms or their right hand from their left.  Embracing rationalism--giving up all assumptions and discovering or clinging to necessary truths--is not easy or apparent to the masses because it takes fucking effort at first.

This is why it is always more likely that a random person would be a terrible friend or spouse than one who is rational and righteous.  It is of course true of coworkers and managers and employers as well.  There is no basis for optimism heading to or remaining in a workplace that is not dominated by rationalists, except in that it might still provide the likes of monetary benefit to oneself as an employee.  Establish yourself professionally, but other than as a means of personal fulfillment if applicable, do it only to materially enrich yourself and not to specifically further the goals of an arrogant, asinine fool of a supervisor or employer.  Build up professional power so that you can toy with them since they are non-rationalists, mere insects in a sense.  Company leadership in this world is always likely to not care about anything more than self-serving ends, not self-serving ends that do not conflict with reason or morality.

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