How To Care About Your Job When It Doesn't Care About You

Organizations fundamentally exist to serve their own purposes—profit, growth, or public service—making employees inherently subordinate means to those ends, regardless of stated values like "family" culture. Since companies are emergent collectives of competing interests rather than rational actors, their decisions will inevitably appear irrational, inconsistent, and dismissive of individual contributors, making it impossible for the organization to genuinely care about its workers. Recognizing this structural reality allows employees to meaningfully contribute and find satisfaction in their work without the psychological damage of expecting organizational loyalty in return.

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