Young Worker Generalizes from One Job Experience: Everyone's Crooked

I learned that in the mainstream, everybody is dishonest everywhere. The clients we dealt with, the industry we were in, the business that we sustained . . . all crooked. Every day was a combination of deceptions, little white lies, misrepresentations, slight bendings of the facts, and dramatic distortions of reality. And this was in a business that had no reason, conceptually speaking, to behave unethically.

Dave Tomar, The Shadow Scholar: How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), p. 6 (ellipsis in original).