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The real reason is because Cathrine Zeta Jones and James Bond actually did implement a program in Malaysia that collects all those rounding errors on a seperate bank account. And since it wenr global, affecting everypne, everyone thinks it ia simply normal.

Or it is because rounding errors happen and accounting is a bitch. The first option makes for a better movie plot so.



I guess I’m old because I credit that plot to Superman III. TIL it’s called Salami Slicing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics#


Man, you and I remember Office Space differently! /s




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