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"Don't bite the hand which feeds you" It's not rocket science.

• pvaldes 4y ago
  I think that the work of this employee was to bite this hand. A company can have good reasons to allow it internally as a social control measure. Kings used jesters as a way out to break tense moments and fights between their subjects; also to read the social undercurrents and detect hits against them. The jester was also uniquely allowed a free card pass to transgress and jump over the rules. The fool jumping over the rules and providing comical relief reduces the desire to the rest of employees to break the same rules. They can fantasize about doing it, without actually doing it or suffering consequences. They can be also educated about the consequences as a moral of the history. The cons of the job is that if the king is demoted, the king's personal buffon became useless, and first candidate to exemplary beheading or, in this case, being fired.
• uni_rule 4y ago
  That's stupid. A blind lack of dissent can easily run a company willingly and enthusiastically off a cliff.