Is it worth hacking the system?
This is something I have been pondering upon for some time now, after having seen quite a lot of people trying to boast about hacking the system.
Not actually studying the subject but finding other ways to get good marks, bribing your way out of a problem, not actually doing the job but getting paid for it, finding ways to offload responsibilities onto some place else but still getting/taking the claim for it.
This kind of behaviour is often seen as a show of power, something aspirational, rare and as something that everyone should incorporate cause the world is unfair and you have to fight for your place in it.
I tried really hard to understand where this kind of behaviour stemmed from, when it became acceptable and most importantly when did this kind of behaviour start getting looked upto or being put up on a pedestal, maybe it's just in my surroundings but it bothers me a lot, maybe I am being to nit-picky and reading into things too much but, the only possible conclusions I could draw upon is, growing up in a place with scarcity of opportunity would push someone to hack the system and increase the chances or get to the land of abundance but this nature somehow lives on and becomes a part of people's core tenets almost to the point where it becomes something to brag about.
There are some places and certain situations that
But, I can't help myself but wonder what's the cost of all this hacking, optimising for efficiency is something else altogether but optimising for efficiency and hacking the system is are often used and understood as one and the same but, they are dare I say, opposites of each other. Optimising is cutting off the extra unnecessary fluff in the process and making the work-flow better with lesser resources without hindering the results if not bettering it, but hacking the system is not caring about the process and just getting to the result any which way.
Some might argue that getting to the result is what matters, in some cases yes but in most cases no, there is a cost to hacking the system whether necessary or unnecessary which we have to bear, though unapparent and seeming almost irrelevant.
The law of compounding applies to these costs alike to the savings made by efficiency.
-A fellow hacker bearing his costs.