I'm generally of the opinion that honesty and mutual cooperation with people are the path to a better future for everyone, but it must be noted that for this purpose neither your boss nor your landlord counts as a person.
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This tweet makes me sad because a) of course there are plenty of good landlords and bosses, and b) this sort of thing is self-reinforcing. If you tell a group they're greedy and uncooperative, they get selected/persuaded towards that. Same as "shareholder value maximization".
(a) Doesn't matter. The degree of power they have over you and the incentives working against them being on your side is sufficiently high that even if they're good you can't afford to treat them as such. (b) This sort of thing self-sustains fine without any reinforcement.
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It's not obvious to me that the incentives are always that way? Generally happy underlings/tenants are good for them as well. Of course there are situations where your interests diverge but that's the case with everyone.
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I've got to agree here -- I've been working at the same job for 13+ years, in part because my boss has treated me fairly and consistently without me needing to play politics or use ultimatums to be compensated fairly. There is a bit of inescapable distance, but that's about all.
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Why can't I afford to try cooperate? What's on the line - a few thousand dollars? Bad renters/employees can easily inflict much bigger costs. Sure, others are in more precarious situations than me. But it's funny how everyone's against defecting except when it's an outgroup.
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I feel like "What's on the line - a few thousand dollars?" is a question that means this conversation isn't going to go anywhere useful.
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I guess it's time for me to raise the rent.
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