You can tell because jealousy exists. On the savannah it wasn't possible to greatly outproduce your rivals, and as a result it was adaptive to destroy anyone who greatly outproduced accolades.
Even on the savannah when you lived with the same 50 people your whole life and thus knew each other inside-out, it was possible to accumulate false accolades. Humans are that dumb.
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Today, hiring and promotion is dominated by jealousy and nepotism. The latter, because are you going to promote someone you hardly know? The former, because it was a good idea on the savannah.
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In the private sector, the jealousy factor is tempered, because overly jealous firms go under. In the public sector, it isn't.
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In the public sector, you have to be very careful to not excite the jealousy of the most incompetent person who will ever have the power to evaluate you.
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