How fondly I remember these types of discussions at the HFT company I worked for.
"We're not doing anything illegal.", they'd say. "The law allows for this."
I've learned that as soon as a company says something like that, they're doing something ethically shady.
Like applying for government funding when replacing whole datacenters full of slow, old, energy-slurping HP servers. How old? 6 months old.
"But these new machines are much more eco-friendly than the ones we're currently running. So we're entitled to government funding for replacing all those bad bad units with more eco-friendly units!"
After replacing those machines with more energy-efficient (and faster!) machines, we'd make more money in a day than most of us will make in a lifetime.
The 6 month old machines got scrap-heaped. With money that the Government was supposed to have spend on ecologically sound business cases.
We weren't doing anything illegal. But it sure felt like it.
"We're not doing anything illegal.", they'd say. "The law allows for this."
I've learned that as soon as a company says something like that, they're doing something ethically shady.
Like applying for government funding when replacing whole datacenters full of slow, old, energy-slurping HP servers. How old? 6 months old.
"But these new machines are much more eco-friendly than the ones we're currently running. So we're entitled to government funding for replacing all those bad bad units with more eco-friendly units!"
After replacing those machines with more energy-efficient (and faster!) machines, we'd make more money in a day than most of us will make in a lifetime.
The 6 month old machines got scrap-heaped. With money that the Government was supposed to have spend on ecologically sound business cases.
We weren't doing anything illegal. But it sure felt like it.