The Honesty Tax

It also selects dishonest people for honest jobs.

Some of the questions as part of entry requirements for the police in NZ are too strict.

The article touches on this:

  anyone who admitted to using marijuana — even if it was many years before — was considered “unfit” for federal employment. These laws also had a long-standing workaround: Most people who had used marijuana in college simply lied about having ever done so. But the administration, it seemed, was saying that this was no longer necessary. Some staffers then disclosed that they’d used marijuana. Then, at least five staffers who disclosed were fired, and others were reassigned to remote roles. The problem, apparently, was that while the administration was thinking about relaxing rules about past weed use for federal employment, it was still regarded as a barrier to a security clearance. [abridged]

In general our society asks us to be dishonest all the time.

I especially notice it with friends that make it extremely hard to be honest with them so everybody lies to them because indirectly that's what they are asking for.