[campbel]

objective systems become gamified

subjective systems become politicized

pick your poison

[ismailmaj]

I'll pick small company, thank you.

[bartread]

This isn’t a bad approach but it’s not a panacea: small companies can be pretty messed up too, albeit perhaps in different ways.

[manquer]

The impact is local though, it would be only a problem if the median small company is more messed up than the large co.

It not likely to happen because being small there are more threats or market forces to deal with so they cannot do as they please. Monopolies or just economies of scale affords large co and the small number of executives that control them outsized influence - both good and bad.

[doctorpangloss]

Yeah... there are no systems that are not political. Even if you agree objectivity is a thing, someone has to persuade others to buy into whatever that objectivity is, and that's still politics, and not cynical at all.

[anonymars]

This is great. I'd begun to conclude the pendulum swung too far towards "moneyball" and both approaches have trade-offs, but this is perfectly succinct

[BadBadJellyBean]

Why not both?

[lacunary]

it is both because the "objective" system is also rife with subjective judgements