Epistemic status: speculative extrapolation based exclusively on the content of this post, rather than my own outside research or experience.
Countersignaling might be another way to look at this. A “mere” manager at Facebook is so powerful that they’re the equivalent to a Vice President of another company. Other companies that don’t realize this, and don’t treat Facebook’s managers with the respect they deserve, wind up looking like fools. Those that do are forced to treat Facebook as a whole as having (superficially) higher status than their own company.
That may not be the motivation behind Zuckerberg’s decision to operate this way. But this explanation might help explain why they wouldn’t take as big a hit as you might otherwise expect from this policy.
Epistemic status: speculative extrapolation based exclusively on the content of this post, rather than my own outside research or experience.
Countersignaling might be another way to look at this. A “mere” manager at Facebook is so powerful that they’re the equivalent to a Vice President of another company. Other companies that don’t realize this, and don’t treat Facebook’s managers with the respect they deserve, wind up looking like fools. Those that do are forced to treat Facebook as a whole as having (superficially) higher status than their own company.
That may not be the motivation behind Zuckerberg’s decision to operate this way. But this explanation might help explain why they wouldn’t take as big a hit as you might otherwise expect from this policy.