The Red Pill on Large Corporations

If any Red Pill needs to be taken by society, it is a Red Pill on large corporations.

The concept of the Red Pill comes from the Matrix. The Blue Pill represents seeing things the way you want to see them. The Red Pill represents seeing things the way they actually are. When you “take the Red Pill,” you come to terms with an uncomfortable truth. If society needs to take a Red Pill, it needs to take a Red Pill on Corporations. A lot of my ideology is basically based on taking the Red Pill on Corporations.

I wrote a post on LinkedIn (I am keeping my full name anonymous) that goes:

My saying is that getting ahead is a combination of nepotism, brown nosing and luck. Anyone who says it's based on merit is either an idiot or still in school. Anyone who says it's based on IQ overrates their own IQ. Why not just call a spade a spade and tell it like it really is, instead of how people want it to be?

Now I don't benefit from nepotism. I don't brown nose. And I haven't been lucky. That's why I only have what I've built up against the odds. My only hope is that one day luck will come my way, because I don't plan on brown nosing.

Now how it should work is that employers should want employees who are blunt and tell things the way they actually are. But that's not how it does work in the largest corporations. The yes men actually do hold their jobs better than the truth tellers. I've witnessed that. Just take OceanGate as an example. There are a lot of companies like OceanGate in my experience. If a boss actually valued employee honesty I would consider that boss a great boss. Otherwise, I would just shut my mouth and collect my paycheck.

That post basically sums up what it means to take the Red Pill on Corporations. It is the day you realize that people get ahead by power dynamics instead of merit.

Things like Green activism and environmentalism could qualify as a Corporate Red Pill too, because you realize profit is at the center of bad environmental policy. Unfortunately, the so called right has not taken this.

Now a Sigma should desire to get out of this situation. However, if you are stuck in this situation, I recommend just playing the game and letting the ship sink itself. After all you are just an employee and it is not really your ship. You can just move to the next ship after it sinks, but why destroy your career to save ingrates who do not appreciate it? There were many times in the past where doing the so called ethically right thing harmed me individually. Never again.