This is why the supposed meritocracy, promotions, and market economy of effort is a sham at corporations. In the real marketplace, support makes income happen. If a person is the owner of the company and does the necessary support, they reap the profits. But employees are not owners and corporations are not fair. The idealized marketplace is where everyone is their own corporation and the real marketplace determines exactly how rewards are allocated. In the real marketplace seemingly dumb ideas and banal work are both rewarded greatly if they have true value. In the corporate environment that will get you stuck in a career-ending dead-end job.
Totally agree with you
Plus the game is further rigged in favor of the corporation
>If you want to get promoted, just start acting like someone at the next level up.
Imagine 5 people working their ass off to go to the next level only 1 gets promoted
But company gets more throughput for free
FWIW, the entrepreneurial market is the same. Just s/company/customer/. You have lots of firms all competing for the customer's business, but only one will get the contract.
>I literally work to pay for rent and food. Sorry if this bums you out.
You spend a third of your life working, if you're only doing it for the money then I feel you're quite literally wasting your life. It doesn't particularly "bum me out", but I do feel sorry for people like you.
Please consider the following scenarios, all of which are things that really happen.
1. The best-paid job you can get pays just barely enough to keep your family in decent conditions. So you take that job, for the money. It costs 1/3 of your life, but the benefit is that your spouse and children get not to starve or live in squalor. Wasted?
2. You give a substantial fraction of your income to charities that save the lives of desperately poor people in Africa. You take a well-paid job, for the money. It costs 1/3 of your life, but the benefit is that every year you're working one more poor African gets to live instead of dying.
3. You have a choice between a job you like pretty well, and a job that's merely OK but pays a lot more. You take the well-paid job, for the money. It costs 1/3 of your life (or, more precisely, 1/3 of your life is somewhat less satisfying than it could have been), but the benefit is that you retire at 50 instead of 60 and have an extra decade of (according to taste) leisure, or working for the public good rather than for money, or starting your own business with the security of knowing you won't starve if it fails, or whatever.
All of these involve working "for the money". The only one of these people I'd feel sorry for is the first -- and not (as in your remark) because s/he is making a tragic mistake, but because s/he is in a difficult situation where no course of action is satisfactory.
Cool, maybe you can share your trust fund with me. Maybe if my startup fails I can go live with your family members since I will have lost my life savings.
