I used to work in management for a Fortune 100 company, and they'd send people around for little afternoon management seminars on one thing or another (usually sexual harassment stuff).

One day, one of the visitors mentioned that money wasn't even in the top 5 reasons that people work, and tried to move on from that, but I stopped them, and made them repeat it, and then said "Well that's not true at all. It's literally the ONLY reason ANYONE goes to work."

They tried to argue it, but I just said "If it's a Payday Friday, and the boss doesn't hand out the paychecks, and tells everyone that there won't be any future paychecks, but they'll see everyone on Monday, the boss will walk into an empty office on Monday. Nobody works for any reason other than a paycheck "

And that was a great job, that almost everybody reading this would enthusiastically grab without thinking twice, but nobody is going to do it for free.

Well. They're right. There is no reason to be there other than money. All the passion for logistics or predatory bullshit or whatever is concentrated in the c-suite. All us wage slaves are just that. Slaves. We are there under duress. We live in a constant state of extortion. We're forced to whore ourselves so we can pay various rents, taxes, and for sustenance.

What could the motivations of the owner be, if not to make money?
Please add to my list:

• prestige
• tax avoidance
• boost retirement savings (in the USA, business owners can stuff their retirement accounts with LOTS of cash.)
• Create and disguise a "sex pad"
• improve the community by providing jobs and/or needed services (start a coffee shop so that there is a coffee shop.)
• time filler

Of those, I think a very healthy 401K contribution from the employer to the employee would be motivating to those already paid well.

Many employees already use the business as a sex pad. (Conference rooms can be gross.)

Fucking work moralism. Work to not to survive, not to have fun, but to stroke the ego of people, who are obsessed with "duty". Thus corporations don't have to pay you a living wage, just fulfill your duty as a human for working. Not working is literally worse than starvation, homelessness, etc. Unless you're rich, which means you proven yourself to worked your ass off to the top.

I might like what I do, but take away the money and I'd not be here. So yes, money is the core reason.

Yeah and i didn't expect to work this hard for an ever decreasing buying power.

But here we are so fuck off.

To a certain extent, this is why I am trying to stick with a mission driven career, choosing opportunities that I feel actually make some small part of the world a better place. Granted, yes, I'm ultimately doing the job because I need the paycheck since I prefer to have food, shelter, and some degree of freedom/control over my life.

Not everybody has that luxury, though.

And expecting people to play pretend all day as though it's anybody's life dream to be typing up OBMC reports because that's their passion in life and that the people they work with are family and that the ultimate goal of being the dominant player in the disposable widgets industry is for the greater good of humanity -- yeah, whatever that's just subversive mind control games. Glad some people can live in that and deny reality, but for the rest of us, you want me to work, then pay me.

Good, then I don’t expect us to be ‘family’, since my family would understand that treating me like shit would ruin our relationship.

Soooooo…

Gotdang.

Do these people think selling some kind of proprietary software or some shit is game changing new age shit? Jesus. People just want a decent place to live.

We can only assume that whoever posted that is working for free, then?

look closely, it's AI slop yet again