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Doubtless those honest, selfless CEO's were completely duped by evil conspiracies of rotten & incompetent middle managers, who've spent the last decade or two building ever-larger pyramids of bloat to set their golden thrones on top of...


This!

Far too often middle managers are incentivized to build the largest team possible.

While the message from the top may be "lean and mean" but you compensate middle managers based on team size...

Perverse incentive certainly comes to mind.


"We can only promote you to director if your team size is 15+"


I have heard that "young people are just smarter", will we see a new CEO of Meta any day now?


Is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell


I believe so, based on the phrase "honest selfless CEOs."


That was my inclination as well, but the grand parent comment being said unironically wouldn't be the weirdest thing I've seen on this website :p


Fair point - "evil conspiracies of rotten & incompetent..." is often a simple & obvious truth.




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