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SG as a corporation', that does strike a chord, particularly re: the banking industry. Making you work 80hrs a week then there being an annual campaign requiring you to also attend an after-hours seminar about getting a better 'Work/Life balance'; achievement of those goals, as contradictory as they are, being tied into your remuneration
The micro-management even of the most superficial expenses was colossal, but all it took was one random black-swan type bad day on the markets and that alone might trigger 20% global company-wide lay-offs. A curious dichotomy, the eye on the wrong ball?
I think SG has a pretty clear issue with demographics. But lets not forget it was only a generation ago that they were paying people (often '''the wrong kind of people''') not to have children, or to at least severely limit their cultural expectations/norms as to family size. It went further, there were even (IIRC) sterilisation programmes. 'Relinquished ovaries bonus' > Baby Bonus? But an issue now is requiring the people who made modern SG what it is, who are enjoying the generous fruits of their labours, to take it down a couple of gears and be content with less. Who is going to blink first and head for the exit door at 5pm sharp, when the colleague over the desk has just bought the latest/better model of your Porsche?
On the one hand there'll be a minister who's remuneration is directly pegged to a rising national childbirth rate, and a million other people working all hours dreaming of the promised day when they might earn 10% of what he does. ...