The notion of corporate loyalty to workers was actually a thing. It was a social norm that was enforced. Companies suffered reputational damage when they did shitty stuff. That all started to change in the '80s, when America began its final slide, both politically and culturally.
Feb 4, 2026 00:50And in the 80’ the media idolized CEOs who did shitty stuff.
Yeah. Everybody did. I knew tons of guys in college who worshipped Gordon Gekko, along with the real-life versions of him.
I was thinking of “Chainsaw Al”
and Jack Welch. From Quartz:
