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		powerbook5300CS on March 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees To be clear, I'm not criticizing or holier than thou —- I'd work there in a heartbeat without complaint and love it. The part I don't get is that it seems everyone who does work there is in shock and awe that this is going on. SHOCKED! It's comical to the point of parody.

sah2ed on March 26, 2018 [–]

It's a cognitive bias that kicks in when your monthly salary is involved, as succinctly noted in 1935 by Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

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