Follow the incentives! Which option has more opportunity for the lizard brain to feel good watching the number in the top right go up? There is much more oppo

Follow the incentives! Which option has more opportunity for the lizard brain to feel good watching the number in the top right go up? There is much more opportunity to earn virtue points with a rags to riches story (regardless of the truth of the story) because it naturally breeds all sorts of "this could never happen at BigCo" contrarian take which then lends itself to all sorts of tropes and anecdotes about perverse HR policies, evil capitalists, inept bureaucracies, internal politics, team churn, etc, etc. There are tons more virtue points up for grabs in that type of circle jerk than there are in response to an article that debunks the story.