Larger organizations have their fair share of pathologies but I generally bet that this is correct about 99.998% of the time someone says “Not that I’ve ever worked there but first principles and high school math suggests you’re being irrational.”https://twitter.com/kevinriggle/status/1029976998519558144 …
Also, I blame Michael Lewis for people’s tendency to do the high school math thing. In his books, the thing the hero figures out is always oh-so-obvious to the hero and the reader, but not to anyone else.