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yummyfajitas on Nov 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tyranny of Meritocracy

Or you can give him a variable payout - $6M if he fails, $20M if he succeeds. This is a far more common situation.

cageface on Nov 8, 2011 [–]

Sure, but there's failure with best effort and then there's the fiasco. Not enough is done to punish the latter, IMO.

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