<![CDATA[Incentives and accountability matter more than the people’s stated values.]]>Incentives and accountability matter more than the people’s stated values.

As this post states, this is why CEOs can say “we value our people” while laying off thousands of them. The incentive is to grow margins and raise the stock price. That trumps any supposed values.

Ignore people’s words, incentives and if they can be held accountable are all that matters.

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No One Is Lying. The System Just Rewards This

The Incentive Problem: Why Everyone Says One Thing and Does Another (and Means Both)

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Oh, you and your fetish for outcomes rather than words. What is the world coming to?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116574020198344243https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116574020198344243Thu, 14 May 2026 17:06:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Incentives and accountability matter more than the people’s stated values. on Thu, 14 May 2026 17:05:19 GMT]]>100,000 tech layoffs so far this year.

Almost all of them preceded by sentiments of how much the CEOs care about their staff but were forced by circumstances beyond their control to execute layoffs.
https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/36198/tech-and-startup-employees-laid-off-worldwide/

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