[dgan]

I still remember.As clear as day: I bought raw eggs and raw meat with my French equivalent "tickets resto", as well as a couple of beers. I am a horrible person. Granted, I was only being paid 2300€/month at that time. Poor international companies providing me generous perks, and I.. I occupy the position of someone else who would be strictly abiding the rules. I should have been fired on the spot. If only the world were run by law abiding individuals like the ones running those generous companies

[FirmwareBurner]

There's your mistake. Abusing the rules for personal gain is a privilege reserved for the rich and powerful. The commoners get the rule book thrown at them if they get caught stealing from their lords.

[infamouscow]

Most of these employees believe they're elite, they aren't.

The natural aristocrats are unaffected, not because they get away with abusing the system, but because they don't abuse them.

One has to be remarkably pathetic and morally bankrupt to abuse this in the first place. Meta is simply correcting their mistake of hiring a fundamentally unqualified peasant.

[ffsm8]

After reading your comment multiple times I can confidently state that the best thing about it is that I am still unsure if you're sarcastic, trolling or actually believe that

[FirmwareBurner]

Let me rephrase for you what he meant: "If you steal, don't get caught."

The rich and powerful are simply much better at breaking the rules without getting caught, that's how they're rich, while the poor are usually not, that's why they stay poor.

[ffsm8]

I doubt he'd agree that he meant that ( • ‿ • )

It's also undisputably false, unless you exclude all the people that don't adhere to your thesis. But at that point, you're just grasping at straws and cannot admit to being wrong.

I.e. P Diddy as a very notorious recent example that was both rich and effectively powerful (how else would he have gotten away with it for decades) and has now crashed. The inverse exists as well, where people publicly commit crimes and get away with it, just because they can. Very frequent for politicians for example, I don't think you need specific examples for that?

[infamouscow]

You've misunderstood my point: "most of these employees believe they're elite, they aren't." This isn't some clumsy No True Scotsman fallacy. It's a straightforward observation of human nature. In any large organization, the delusion of competence is widespread.

Now, let's assume, as you suggest, that I'm wrong and Meta has fired a true natural elite for abusing company perks. If that's the case, Meta's failure is obvious. However, if they really were elite, and Meta valued them accordingly, the abuse would be irrelevant. Elite performance forgives small transgressions—always has, always will.