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>I can't tell how much of it is random people projecting their cynicism onto the business world

Is this on HN? Because I rarely sees it. Most people working in Tech and specifically software development are so abstracted from these type of things they think they are extremely rare.

It is still a common thing though. At least it happens much more often than most people thought. And it is not cynicism but personal experience.

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If you’re on a government contract, it’s quite likely you’re exposed to all sorts of opportunities for wrong doing, even as a technical worker.

Try talking to a retired government worker for juicy stories some time (there are three generations of tech workers in my family, and all of us have done government work or contracting since the 1960s).

This is why government workers and contractors have to take so much anti-corruption training (I’ve never been subject to this in any purely private sector jobs).

Happens in manufacturing allll the time, especially if you're contracting our work to companies in India/China/Vietnam/etc.

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