In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
Source： Bertrand Russell: Power, 1938.
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Whether in government institutions or private corporations, those at the top of the organizational hierarchy, or close to it, hold tremendous power and authority. Even in democratic countries, powerful figures within large organizations can exercise unfair power and influence without breaking any laws. It is easy for them to remove those who are not obedient or whom they simply dislike from the path to promotion, and to reassign them to idle, powerless departments.
However, many employees are well aware of this reality. As a result, most ordinary workers tend to be obedient to their organizations and the people who wield real power within them. Following the logic of "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down," they gradually develop a habit of taking the safest and least controversial course of action.
Examples of those who became victims of futile (or, if that sounds too harsh, "unsuccessful") resistance include: the person demoted by Governor Saito of Hyogo Prefecture, the employee at Toshiba who was sidelined after blowing the whistle on accounting fraud, and the former Ministry of Defense official who lost his job after revealing the South Sudan daily reports from the Self-Defense Forces.
Are you the obedient type, or the kind who can't help but speak up?
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