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I have the opposite experience, where Oracle would allow/offer discounts up to 80% of their price list, making the actual list pretty much useless...

I find it strange that no one mentions London, property prices have soared in the past 20 years [1] with money laundering playing a key role [2][3][4][5].

Nowadays, football clubs appear to be a better option, as they allow easy laundering of billions instead of millions...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/property-prices/london/

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-prope...

[3] https://money.cnn.com/2015/07/28/news/london-real-estate-mon...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/may/20/uk-foreign-...

[5] https://www.newsweek.com/how-russians-launder-stolen-money-r...

It's also blocked by default by uBlock Origin, fortunately.

I think it has (sadly) become common for people/companies to adopt software just/mostly because it came from Twitter/FAANG or whatever company that is high on hype...

>> Are you comfortable with that single client of your employer having a strong incentive to make your job redundant so they can try to hire you under worse terms (as you suddenly lost your job)?

I understand what you mean, and that situation doesn't seem desirable either, but I think that that is very uncommon when compared to companies trying to retain/squeeze employees using contracts with employment restrictions.

>> I'm amazed that the contract Star Theory had with Take-Two didn't have a clause prohibiting Take-Two from poaching employees like this.

I'm amazed that people sign contracts accepting this kind of restrictions to their lives.

That's (fortunately) illegal in the EU country I live in, as it creates artificial barriers in the job "market", i.e. it is illegal to limit people's access to work. Still, cartel practices like not hiring from "friendly companies" abound.

>> If I hire a consultancy company to build something for me, would I normally be able to directly hire the employees who did the work?

I see contracts imposing restrictions like this all the time where I live, and people sadly just nod and accept, but these clauses never hold up in court as no company has a right to decide where people can or can't work.

Having worked as a consultant, I'm repulsed by the idea that I'd need my company's permission to leave and go work for a client. Especially because the provision stinks of "cheaper than actually investing in people retention". If the issue is intellectual property transfer, that's what an NDA is for.