Its prostitution. When society demands you pay more and more exhorberant fees to merely survive, the desperate often sell their own bodies to remain afloat.

For some that is sex work. For others, its the military. Sure, theoretically every one is volentarily taking these jobs of their own free will, but in reality it is almost always a forced choice out of duress.

Lots of money being spent on overhyped projects that either fail to deliver, cheap upgrades that overrun costs so badly they were never the affordable option, and the actual new stuff that works never sees completion.

Where have I seen these patterns before…