What we still don't know about our visual cortices
redwood.psych.cornell.edu1 pointsby seigenblues0 comments
"Instead the question ... taps something deeper and more
closely held. ... If I know what matters to them, I can
right away tell if the same things matter to ...
the organization at large."
In other words: "expose something tender and honest, so that we can exploit it as directly as possible."
That last paragraph seems far more damning of the author than of Mason -- they're so disappointed that he doesn't have any obvious status symbols and he's riding off on a moped.
Good for him, and shame on them, for equating consumption with success.
(he should really wear a helmet, though!)