# Conditions of Workplace Freedom: No Intention to Sell By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-01-08 Many people start a business to sell it. Make a dent in the competition and sell to the highest bidder. You get a short spike of intense work, keep the business running on duct tape and bubble gum, and then sit on the beach counting all the money. Similarly, many corporate boards, executives, venture capitalists, and private equity firms operate the same way: short-term, intense work at all costs with the hopes of cashing out via merger or acquisition before it crumbles. While potentially lucrative to a few individuals at the top, it often destroys everything else. Who cares if the rest of the organization is in shambles in the long run? That's someone else's problem. Right now, you work employees to the bone, squeeze out every ounce of profitability, and cut all corners. In such an environment, you only look out for yourself and no one else. Greed and selfishness are powerful short-term motivators but destroy workplace freedom, sustainability, solidarity, and self-actualization. Ultimately, any intentions to cash out tempt our dark inner nature and pushes the organization in the wrong direction. In nature there is no such thing as cashing out - it's an artificial human construct. There is no retirement for living beings in the universe - just the never ending fight against entropy and death. Self-organizing, complex systems transform, evolve, and move against death and disorder. Creating a workplace intended to die seems like a great way to sacrifice the many for the few. This is the opposite of true freedom. #### Related Items [[Freedom]] [[Organizational Analytics]] [[Solidarity]] [[Self-Actualization]] [[Conditions of Workplace Freedom - Skin in the Game]] [[Freedom and the Death of Management]] [[Management]]