Incredibly well said. I find it hilarious when people talk about “company loyalty” when things like pensions are few and far gone, and companies are gutting benefits, fighting against raises, and generally treating all employees as expendable, then getting surprised when people don’t want to work for their pittances.

Once you stop working at a company, you get nothing from said company. Sure, some companies will match things like 401(k) contributions to an extent, but that’s purely only supporting you while you are employed there, and even that’s becoming less and less common.

Nowadays the only thing that can help employees are unions. But it’s sort of always been that way. Weekends? Unions. Annual cost of living raises? Unions. Not getting shot for walking off the job because you aren’t getting fairly compensated? Unions.

The hyper-capitalism that has permeated every single aspect of our daily lives from (ironically pension funded corporations) buying up swathes of houses before anyone is lucky enough to own them, to measuring every single market activity to ensure everything is priced to the extreme before they lose a drop of profit while every able bodied person is trying to provide for themselves or their families or even get a glimpse at something decent in an already bleak future is despicable.

We’re on a doomsday fast track, and the ones in charge of where we’re headed don’t give a shit, because they’re already planning on how they’ll make their escape, or at least ride it out in comfort and safety.

My point is that assuming CEO's have a shitty work ethic is a bad assumption and also irrelevant to reforming work culture.

Yes CEOs and small business owners are quite different, but the kinds of people who become CEOs of billion dollar companies are not the kinds of people who have a bad work ethic. They get there by being good at their job which presumably means working hard at it.

I'm not trying to defend CEOs, I just don't think it's productive to misrepresent them.

You gotta learn context

Really? I think you're ignoring the context of my post within the thread. The image in discussion doesn't assert unions are good, or CEOs are bad, or small business are good or anything you bring up in your post. The image in discussion asserts CEOs have a bad work ethic, which is factually incorrect and completely unproductive in terms of advancing work reform.

I was using my father as a comparison to say: People can be hard workers and still treat their employees badly.

I agree with everything in your comment. My only point is that I don't think painting CEOs as incompetent people with poor work ethics serves any purpose except that of making some people feel good about themselves.

Misrepresenting or misunderstanding your "adversaries" serves only to distract from the real problem and maybe provide some entertainment. OPs post about "CEOs not hustling" is likely factually incorrect and more importantly completely irrelevant to the problems we face as a society. It's inflammatory and makes people mad but for the wrong reasons and at the wrong people.

A CEO is paid to make money for their company, they are not paid to make their employees happy. You pay your government to represent you and your needs, get mad at them for allowing CEOs to run businesses at the expensive of their employees.