i remember in like 2022, my boss who i thought was slightly cool asked me how i was doing and i said, "well, my faith in our society's institutions is at an all time low" and apparently that was a radioactive take, because during COVID he became a build back better kool-aid drinker. a year later he is completely baffled by cynicism among workers (who have received raises far below inflation rates for 3 years in a row), has cultivated a wildly dysfunctional turnover rate, and is racing towards a supernova of people vacating positions for other organizations / early retirement. and he's way too Mr. Magoo to see it coming. i would feel bad for him, but somewhere in the last years he stopped listening to people below him and started taking everything the do-nothing suits above him said as gospel, so he absolutely did this to himself.