[celestius]

I'm curious to hear about corporate culture in less cutthroat economies. Given how much of managerial BS is about making sure your underlings don't get fired, just making it harder to fire people in the first place would do a lot to remove that incentive.

[ludicity]

I'm the author. I've largely worked in places where firing people is next to impossible, and my colleagues usually think the opposite - in contexts where firing people is possible, the people who lie perpetually should gradually get eliminated. It's hard to quantify which setup has it worse, but tweaking the 'easy to fire people' dial seems like it either does nothing, or needs some other changes alongside it.

I'm still open to the possibility that large enterprises just tend to become terrible, and that's that.

[flanked-evergl]

I worked for a Norwegian Cooperative and it had the most toxic corporate culture and management practices of any company I have ever worked for which included US fortune 500 companies, and it was not particularly close.