• @[email protected]
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    1710 months ago

    It makes sense - he spent so much time learning how the system worked, enough to get around it, so now he makes a living continuing the exploit. Many politicians and CEOs do the same.

    • @just_another_person
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      610 months ago

      Yes, but it’s still wrong, if true. Plagiarism isn’t just unethical, it’s punitive in most places. I don’t see anything bad about calling it out.

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        Oh absolutely. And this being in academia, they likely will lose their job over it - like that Harvard professor who was accused of a highly similar form of plagiarism (borrowing long stretches of text while failing to cite the original source material). I was pointing out the absurdity of not doing that for politicians and CEOs:-(.

      • HACKthePRISONS
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        410 months ago

        plagiarism is an academic crime.

        failing to cite a source is completely amoral.

        • @just_another_person
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          No, it’s also possible to be sued for plagiarism, so defacto punitive.

          I would also err on the side of ethics versus morality for something that doesn’t directly and intentionally do harm on its outset.