You've touched on another important point. I am now middle aged, but when I was in my early 30s, I figured out that most "prestigious" corporations that I might have worked at, had I succeeded in become an Engineer, are deeply corrupt, and are not deserving of honest, hard-working, employees who have integrity.
Example: Boeing, which was once owned and operated by engineers, began a long downhill slide after the takeover by non-engineers (who's interests did not lie in a quality product, but pure profit for the sake of profit without any other considerations--but that is a whole other topic).
And it seems that the vast majority of companies/corporations have the problems you mentioned, which would make me lose respect for the company, and then everything else goes out the window because if I can't respect the company, I cannot give my loyalty and hard work, and if I can't do that I feel extremely inauthentic, and like, what am I doing here? Time to move on.
Corporations take on a life of their own, and the only priority is survival of the corporation. People are nothing more than "cogs in the mechanism", often seen as liabilities, not assets, and the rule in business is limit your liabilities and maximize your assets.
A person is only an asset if the decisions they make or the work that they do create more money for the company than what they are being paid.
So, if you're wondering why the company you work for is resistant to hiring enough staff or paying a living wage, this is why. It's not about the people. It's company first. Many people are disposable liabilities.
You hear these people out on the streets with picket signs, fighting for increased wages and benefits, often with union representation,
"Pay me what I am worth!" Be careful what you wish for, because to the company, you may be costing them money. You may be worth "negative dollars" in many cases.
Example: At our hospital system, we are one of the largest employers in Michigan, US and our insurance division is one of the largest in the US, period. Hundreds of thousands of employees. Big. We have a corporate policy that if someone leaves the organization or even shifts from one position to another, that open position will go to review. It may take months before Human Resources makes a decision to post a replacement position because they will dig into whether or not hiring another person will actually result in more profit. I always got frustrated when a person leaves or moves, all their projects are left, sometimes abandoned, and then if and when a replacement shows up there is nobody to train them. It's a clean slate and they have to train themselves how to do the job. Personally, I think it's a stupid way to operate a business from a job performance perspective, but from a corporate accounting perspective, money talks and people don't matter, even within healthcare.
Furthermore, when I talk to my team about the potential roles and applications of A.I. and humanoid robots in healthcare, the initial reaction is to scoff it off as impossible, as if it will never happen. Humans need to take care of humans. The emotional interactions. I look at them and say,
"You mean to suggest, that our corporate leaders, when presented with an opportunity to fill needed healthcare positions with A.I. operated humanoid robots that can be purchased at 3X LESS than a human, that will not make human mistakes, that will pay for itself in a few months, and then result in free labor, that YOUR job will be secure?" "This will sweep through healthcare like a wildfire and you won't know what just happened because it will not creep in, but rather hit us like a tidal wave."
