I think that's missing the point that should be obvious that people, including you, are simply misidentifying "self-interest" as if a person was an abstraction of an employee.
Every person has many interests. You have an interest in a salary, but you can still get a different job if necessary. You have an interest in staying out of prison that probably overrides doing what your boss says. You have an interest in your retirement savings, but you also have an interest in clean water. Nobody wants a company to poison the river in their town just to get 0.1% more of a dividend. Often people claim that others behave in this way, but it's absurd.
The peculiar mental state people seem to be in when talking politics is that they think they have an identity as a member of a class, rather than a human being that belongs to many classes at the same time.
I guess people talk about intersectionality, but I think that is a way to compartmentalize being human as a special thing special people do on special occasions.
Every person has many interests. You have an interest in a salary, but you can still get a different job if necessary. You have an interest in staying out of prison that probably overrides doing what your boss says. You have an interest in your retirement savings, but you also have an interest in clean water. Nobody wants a company to poison the river in their town just to get 0.1% more of a dividend. Often people claim that others behave in this way, but it's absurd.
The peculiar mental state people seem to be in when talking politics is that they think they have an identity as a member of a class, rather than a human being that belongs to many classes at the same time.
I guess people talk about intersectionality, but I think that is a way to compartmentalize being human as a special thing special people do on special occasions.