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Lots and lots and lots of people are already lying. Hard to compete with that.

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A quant analyst working at some firm was told to steal Bernie Madoff's lunch. When he realized Bernie was 100% accurate on his predictions and it was obviously bullshit, he told his bosses, and filed four appeals with the SEC, but no one would listen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_Would_Listen

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I had a 21 year old neighbor who (as a research project) tailored an outlandishly fake resume for a job offer with many fake years of experience, many fake letters of recommendation and fake phone numbers from friends who would praise him into the sky. While he would have fitted perfectly (they said) he didn't get the job because the other applicant had more experience and was younger. He was baffled someone lied even more.

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