Why would a smart person try to destroy the company he works for? He is disempowered. He feels he can’t access the people in charge, so complaining is his only way to get the truth out. He is fundamentally a rebel. Sometimes these people actually make better CEOs than employees. He is immature and naive. He cannot comprehend that the people running the company do not know every minute detail of its operations. He therefore believes they are complicit in everything that’s broken. It’s very difficult to turn heretics around. Once a heretic takes a public stance, the social pressure to be
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