That will put you ahead in some contexts or completely destroy your life on different contexts. And even make you ineffective for fighting against the problem.

Apply it smartly, and evaluate if forcibly changing your context isn't the right move for you. Blindly sticking to the anti-jingoist approach is as bad as blindly applying it.

> And even make you ineffective for fighting against the problem.

We are not discussing someone who has any potential or interest to be effective in fighting the problem. The proposed alternative to what you call innefective fighting is complete support of that thing.

And second no, it will not destroy your life. People really love to exaggerate risks management or C-suite or teamleaders take.