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The same is true of people who are trying to make themselves unfireable by writing difficult to maintain software to gain job security.

They do this because they think they would be abandoned by society immediately the moment they are fired. It's kind of ironic. People want power not because they need it but instead to shield themselves from the bad side effects that not having power entails. In other words, people want to have power to protect themselves from those in power.




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