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Comment by Klaster_1

4 months ago

I wonder how many programmers resort to crime after they were laid off and couldn't find a job. Like soldiers after a war.

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skeeter2020  4 months ago

not related to the current western market, but countries like Romania pre EU had a huge surplus of soviet-educated young people and no jobs. This definitely increased their involvement with "informal" economies for some time.

wyre  4 months ago

That might make for a good book or movie plot.

  • mablopoule  4 months ago

    It was the basis of the plot of the first Jurassic Park movie. All shenanigans started because Dennis Nedry, the parc IT manager, disabled some security system at a bad time so he could sell some company secrets to concurrents.

    There are interesting character analysis to do between the book and the movie version, where the book version or Dennis Nedry is way more sympathetic (even if flawed), he's a extremely talented IT guy who was undersold the amount of work to do in the park, kinda stuck doing unpaid overwork in a remote island and generally been fleeced by a way more villainous book John Hammond.

adhamsalama  4 months ago

That's pretty much what ex-IDF members do, but they set it up as a company so it becomes legal somehow, I guess...