Haha, holy shit, it's my $workplace 👀 "Reputation is a rent, not a reward This is where the optimistic reading falls apart. Reputation does not behave like a currency you can earn; it behaves like land. It is finite, it is inherited, and its owners collect on it without having to produce anything new. An economy in which attention flows to institutional brand rather than to individual results is a rent economy, and rent economies have a well-documented set of properties: entry is closed, returns concentrate at the top, and the productive work is done by people who do not own the asset." https://giorgio.gilest.ro/the-weimar-of-knowledge/#:~:text=Reputation%20is%20a,own%20the%20asset.