The corporation acting as an entity is part of the problem — if company culture, your manager, or whoever demands loyalty to that entity, that always will be a hollow promise no matter who asked for it, because an entity cannot return that loyalty. Corporate entities of a certain size are like superorganisms — their main goal is survival and for that they will shed the cells that make them work if it benefits them.
You can be loyal to people within those corporations, but even they can be forced to break that loyalty towards you to safe their skin.
Saying all of this I think true loyalty can be found at work. Just not beyond a certain organizational scale or at a very limited interpersonal level.
The corporation acting as an entity is part of the problem — if company culture, your manager, or whoever demands loyalty to that entity, that always will be a hollow promise no matter who asked for it, because an entity cannot return that loyalty. Corporate entities of a certain size are like superorganisms — their main goal is survival and for that they will shed the cells that make them work if it benefits them.
You can be loyal to people within those corporations, but even they can be forced to break that loyalty towards you to safe their skin.
Saying all of this I think true loyalty can be found at work. Just not beyond a certain organizational scale or at a very limited interpersonal level.