Wow. I have seen some corruption around worker safety but this is unbelievable. Well... Rhetorically unbelievable, that is. Given what I've personally witnessed it's definitely not literally unbelievable.
The only place I think you're not correct is that the workers went along with it, "not to disappoint his or her team." I'd say they went along with it because they absolutely knew that trying to fight it would accomplish nothing other than costing them their job, income, home, family, and everything else they had worked for, including the future lives of their children, and that the system would continue on without pause after rolling over and destroying their life exactly as it had before they tried to speak up about the corruption.
I can tell you that I live in complete poverty because I saw what happened in the world and refused to participate. I worked for a quite influential accounting and consulting firm in a pretty low position but the higher-ups had actually marked me for future promotion because they thought I was a sociopath and would happily be a part of the machine in exchange for prestige and wealth. I saw and heard things that I found profoundly disturbing as I was raised with some pretty solid moral and ethical values. Mostly in the realm of what has been called, "affluenza."
I could tell you some stories about sociopaths mistaking me for, "one of us," and the things I have learned from those experiences that would horrify you. They really are a sort of different species that just looks like the rest of us.
Wow. I have seen some corruption around worker safety but this is unbelievable. Well... Rhetorically unbelievable, that is. Given what I've personally witnessed it's definitely not literally unbelievable.
The only place I think you're not correct is that the workers went along with it, "not to disappoint his or her team." I'd say they went along with it because they absolutely knew that trying to fight it would accomplish nothing other than costing them their job, income, home, family, and everything else they had worked for, including the future lives of their children, and that the system would continue on without pause after rolling over and destroying their life exactly as it had before they tried to speak up about the corruption.
I can tell you that I live in complete poverty because I saw what happened in the world and refused to participate. I worked for a quite influential accounting and consulting firm in a pretty low position but the higher-ups had actually marked me for future promotion because they thought I was a sociopath and would happily be a part of the machine in exchange for prestige and wealth. I saw and heard things that I found profoundly disturbing as I was raised with some pretty solid moral and ethical values. Mostly in the realm of what has been called, "affluenza."
I could tell you some stories about sociopaths mistaking me for, "one of us," and the things I have learned from those experiences that would horrify you. They really are a sort of different species that just looks like the rest of us.