They are placed in severely toxic situations. To succeed, they transform their entire selves into maximizers of what get you ahead in middle corporate management.
Is the claim that this applies narrowly to corporate management, or that this is a fair description of the human condition? I’d think aboriginal hunters have roughly the same description—hungry and afraid is pretty toxic. Becoming better at killing when necessary, or climbing the group hierarchy by rather callous behaviors is the only way to succeed.
My claim certainly isn’t that it doesn’t apply to anyone outside corporate management or outside mazes (mazes need not be corporate). Certainly there are lots of types of severely toxic situations.
However, I do think that an aboriginal hunter does not engage in what I am describing here.
Nor has most of my life been spent in such situations. At no point other than my job on Wall Street did I feel under anything like this level of pressure—and even then, while it got pretty bad by the end, it was nothing like what is described here. Same goes for everyone I know who isn’t in something that is recognizably a maze.
Is the claim that this applies narrowly to corporate management, or that this is a fair description of the human condition? I’d think aboriginal hunters have roughly the same description—hungry and afraid is pretty toxic. Becoming better at killing when necessary, or climbing the group hierarchy by rather callous behaviors is the only way to succeed.
My claim certainly isn’t that it doesn’t apply to anyone outside corporate management or outside mazes (mazes need not be corporate). Certainly there are lots of types of severely toxic situations.
However, I do think that an aboriginal hunter does not engage in what I am describing here.
Nor has most of my life been spent in such situations. At no point other than my job on Wall Street did I feel under anything like this level of pressure—and even then, while it got pretty bad by the end, it was nothing like what is described here. Same goes for everyone I know who isn’t in something that is recognizably a maze.