Creative minds really seem to upset the status quo.

My favorite note from managers or bosses who have fired me is “you are not a team player.” My response has usually been “Nobody on this team is winning and they all resent the team captain for being a idiot and an asshole.”

Politicians have no room for creative minds. And businesses are all about doing just enough to make profit quietly.

Creative people don’t do well in these environments. And it really is hilarious to me.

On a team of complacent drones led by an idiot… it’s really hard not to get fed up and pop-off at your boss. Especially when you have excellent communication skills and a mind that cuts through the bullshit.

It’s an odd sort of world where the most educated and skilled people have to answer to “the owner’s buddy” or “son-in-law” or even the “self-made billionaire” who started out with 600 million in his pocket and bought all the rights to patents he had nothing to do with developing and drive 20+ companies into bankruptcy while getting lucky with one electric car company or one social media platform.

Most of the people waiting tables and cutting hair, working warehouses and driving trucks have more on the ball than they get credit for. And in my experience, sexist duplicitous dipshits run the world nit because they are savvy, but because they are annointed by blood, marriage, or blackmail.

Don’t think me jaded. There are good people out there running good businesses. Buzzballz premium cocktails, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Chobani Greek Yogurt, anything Ryan Reynolds or George Clooney is into…

But old ways die hard in 90% of American Companies. You are hired to do a job, encouraged to think outside the box, and any ideas you come up with are passed up the ladder with none of the credit paid back to the source. “Good job, thank you for your insight…here’s your severance package.”

It’s a con as old as Thomas Edison. And in a “right to work” state… you have limited options unless you and 5 co-workers join together and can pitch a lawyer the case based on “emails” the company will accuse you of stealing.

Ugh.

Creative people are too intelligent to hold grudges. To quote the old fable: “A lion knows better than to waste time arguing with an ass.”

Either everyone matters or nobody matters.

A society that wishes to grow, a corporate structure that wants to expand and diversify, needs to accommodate for creativity. Otherwise, they’re vampires sucking good ideas form a constantly churning abetwar.