[dahwolf]

So now it's a pyramid scheme?

A scam and a pyramid scheme are not synonyms. Toxic promotion culture is neither a scam nor a pyramid scheme.

A scam is where you pay for something yet do not receive the promised item. Nobody promised you a promotion at Google so it's not a scam.

A pyramid scheme is where an ever growing amount of low level newcomers pay for the returns of those on the top. When you're a low level newcomer at Google, you don't pay for the higher level employees. Google does. Nor does it require an exponentially growing amount of newcomers for the system to not collapse.