[nudgeOrnurture]

the obstacle are concerns and issues that are ignored, selectively or electively, for the sake of financial mechanisms, extraordinary agreements, to keep the balance sheets clean or late Soviet style management aka "don't let the leader know", or the shareholders.

at that point, you can't flatter no more and it's hard or impossible to remain constructive.

luckily that's a problem for less than 5 % of any workforce and thus, statistically irrelevant.

real issues and concerns thus turn into a 95 out of 100 kind of problem. and this has been going on for so long that the entire chains of command and hierarchies are easily corrupted.

in the Netflix adaptation of Cyberpunk 2077, the hierarchies in corporations only exist for the sake of flattery, so that there is someone below, without any real function except maybe to store some secrets in their brain and or make them accomplices that can take the fall whenever necessary.

I hope we'll never get there but our chains of command have been made for, by and of flatterers.

it's otherwise hard to impossible to imagine how all these small wars are going on or how media decides to portrait them, and how things like the right to repair, tiktock, cookies, web surveillance and fingerprinting for the sake of marketing could have happened.

[PaulHoule]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Black_Bag where the professors are idiots held up in the social hierarchies and the bottle washer is the real genius who watches over them.