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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
by soup10 7y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
- gcp123 7y agoThis quote perfectly describes my experience of raising the issues of values, ethics, and responsibility with colleagues at Facebook when I worked there.
- bhl 7y agoAs a corollary of the permanent income hypothesis [1]—or the relative income hypothesis, which ever you’d prefer—people also smooth their morals and ethics over their lifetimes! Maybe the solution here is to align moral incentives from the get-go, a pre-commitment mechanism say in the form of an early aged baptism? /s [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_income_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_income_hypothesis