> Is it really so weird that a company would hire someone with intimate knowledge of a system in order to help navigate that system? This type of hiring occurs

> Is it really so weird that a company would hire someone with intimate knowledge of a system in order to help navigate that system? This type of hiring occurs all the time, it literally has a name in the tech community - "acquihire". Hmm, no it's not. Because when Google, Microsoft or another acquihire a smaller fish they don't bribe one of the XO for years before (plus, the public administration don't disappear like the smaller fish does in an acquihire). > Do you find acquihires just as distasteful and filled with conflicts of interest? Aaaaand here comes the lauded question based on a suspicious analogy. > Is it really so weird that a company would hire someone with intimate knowledge of a system in order to help navigate that system? s/navigate/cheat They are walking rolodex, that's what it is. And it's documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_%28politics%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_%28politics%29