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>>It's very odd that the guy who was famous for saying what upper management should do (set culture) ended up building a culture that has completely failed

Is it? Everywhere I worked upper management is taking big about the culture but their taking points are rarely applied to the company.

Like when Facebook says something like "we value your privacy"

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Facebook does value your privacy, because it's a commodity they can sell for a high price.

Sort of like that Twilight Zone episode. The aliens come and convince us they are here to serve man. "Here, if you don't believe us look at our book called 'To Serve Man.'"

Finally one of the humans translates it and discovers it's a cookbook.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Z...

FB invades your privacy so that they sell access to you. Your privacy is important to them, so that they can continue to be the intermediary.

Humm time to put my life story and my product and lifestyle preferences in an easy to read format behind a small paywall, there's gold in them there hills!

And they have internal modeling to exactly value each persons privacy in $

> Everywhere I worked upper management is taking[sic] big about the culture but their taking[sic] points are rarely applied to the company.

Or worse, where I am their talking points about the culture they want ONLY applies to the company and not themselves. (In-office requirements, how the office is laid out, etc.)

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