knowing that your employer no longer has the ability to dump you into poverty is a big deal.
This is the crux of the matter: being free to do what you want with your life, and feeling safe and secure at the office. This will allow you such luxuries as freely speaking your mind, refusing unethical orders, privileging actual professional accomplishment over the appearance thereof, not feeling threatened by the success of your peers and being able to help and collaborate with them freely, and so on.
Yes. Though, psychologically, many people may in fact have trouble refusing orders, not feeling threatened by more visibly successful peers, etc., even if they’re secure enough financially that they’re in no real danger of poverty.
This is the crux of the matter: being free to do what you want with your life, and feeling safe and secure at the office. This will allow you such luxuries as freely speaking your mind, refusing unethical orders, privileging actual professional accomplishment over the appearance thereof, not feeling threatened by the success of your peers and being able to help and collaborate with them freely, and so on.
Yes. Though, psychologically, many people may in fact have trouble refusing orders, not feeling threatened by more visibly successful peers, etc., even if they’re secure enough financially that they’re in no real danger of poverty.