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Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
by blang 8y ago
Those seem like really low figures for bribes considering the average salary of a facebook employee.
- xkcd-sucks 8y ago"someone working at facebook" probably isn't an employee, most likely anything requiring case by case human discretion is a contractor position that pays shit. On the other hand, this seems like a way to legitimately take your instagram career to the next level! Networking is about who you know, not about how many people you know. Knowing a Facebook verification contractor is some pretty ironclad social proof.
- bduerst 8y agoYeah, I was thinking the same: most human-scalable data entry ops, like application review, is farmed out to contractors. That said, there's no guarantee that the contractor will be assigned your application to review. Assuming there are bribes, it likely would involve multiple people which increases it's chances of being revealed and less likely to actually be happening.
- skybrian 8y agoMaybe not for someone in customer support, though.
- nkrisc 8y agoIf your expenses equal or exceed your income, even at Facebook salary, an extra $3,000 can be crucial to keeping up the appearance of financial success.
- maxxxxx 8y agoIt's pretty common for bribes to be pretty cheap compared to the gain. Same in DC. The ROI for lobbying is enormous. Spend a few million to get billions in subsidies or tax cuts.
- acchow 8y agograndparent wasn't referring to ROI of the bribe.
- shadowprofile76 7y agoExactly and the simple reason why, which keeps these basic economics of bribery working so robustly, is the asymmetric measures of value/cost inherent to the two sides of the equation. A government or facebook employee or whomever who has access to some lever worth a great deal will sell access to it for these fairly small sums exactly because the much greater value isn't actually a cost to them. They're leveraging their access to someone elses resources for personal acquisition of a much smaller but to them worthwhile gain. You'd never convince a billionaire to sell you access to something of theirs worth billions by paying them only millions, but, like you said, you can easily convince a senator to give you access to billions in government resources (tax money) for a few million to their personal campaign.
- gubbrora 8y ago(1000 to 15000) times n, where n may not be insignificant. And realistically the risk is low because the cost to Facebook for a review is low.
- aj7 8y agoRepeat business.