[ClumsyPilot]

> When jobs security is decoupled from productivity, the winds of the company can and do change frequently.

But that is always the case, and the "productivity=security" environment is artificial and unnatural.

The large forces beyond your control dominate the world, and the whole companies get hit by redundancies because the market changed, AI ate some section of the market, or the banks were too busy playing with mortgages and collapsed the whole global economy.

My experience indicates that it's more important to be working on the right thing, than to be super productive working on the wrong thing.

[MichaelZuo]

This seems like a tautology, by definition forces on a global scale are far beyond the average person.

If they weren’t, then they would cease to significantly affect things on such a scale.

[ClumsyPilot]

Exactly, and even beyond control of company management. In which case why is everyone so obsessed with productivity?