And thus we have the Earth. Where all looks like a broken MMO in every direction. Everybody refuses to participate, because it's 100% griefers, yet nobody can leave.
Materials Academica: Doping + Graphene = feces papers (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184) "Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?" (Bonus joke! Crap is actually a better dopant material.)
Military: The saga of the Navy, Pacific Fleet, and Fat Leonard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal) "exploited the intelligence for illicit profit, brazenly ordering his moles to redirect aircraft carriers, ships and subs to ports he controlled in Southeast Asia so he could more easily bilk the Navy for fuel, tugboats, barges, food, water and sewage removal."
Business: Can you get a law written to command the economy to give you money or never suffer punishments? Intel fabs (https://reason.com/2024/03/20/federal-handout-to-intel-will-...), Tesla dealers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes), Uber taxis (https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak...), ect... Are you wealthy enough there's nothing "normals" can really do? EBay intimidation scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal).
Economic Academia: Harvard Prof. Gino (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/11/harvard-busines...)
Materials Academica: Doping + Graphene = feces papers (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.9b00184) "Will Any Crap We Put into Graphene Increase Its Electrocatalytic Effect?" (Bonus joke! Crap is actually a better dopant material.)
Gaming: Roblox double cut on sales (that people mostly just argue about how enormous it is, because the math's purposely confusing) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247034)
Politics: Was Santos ever actually punished?
Military: The saga of the Navy, Pacific Fleet, and Fat Leonard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal) "exploited the intelligence for illicit profit, brazenly ordering his moles to redirect aircraft carriers, ships and subs to ports he controlled in Southeast Asia so he could more easily bilk the Navy for fuel, tugboats, barges, food, water and sewage removal."
Work: "Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation" (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...)
There's others, that's just already so many...