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It reminds me of Matt Levine's insider trading, saying(? I don't think it's one of the laws).

"It's not about fairness, it's about theft"

Which was also applicable to that college admissions thing. The problem is not that people were buying their way into schools. It's that they were paying someone other than the school to do so. The situation as a whole feels a bit dodgy, but the core legal problem is the guy took something that really belonged to Netflix.



yes, both of those parallels came to mind as I was writing. You're exactly right, from my perspective, in underscoring the similarity.

Once you have that basic model then all the rest of the variations: the company can allow it etc fall out of the model.




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