Meet the New Boss

(2003)

There are two types of people who do well in dictatorships: those who make themselves politically indispensable, doing whatever bit of wickedness the dictatorship requires, and those who make themselves economically indispensable, keeping the trains and refineries running smoothly. ...

How much of the tech world does the 2nd describe?

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/magazine/meet-the-new-boss.html

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Meet the New Boss (Published 2003)

Peter Maass article examines relationship between Dathar Khashab, who rose through ranks of oil industry in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and Capt Tom Hough, who has task of protecting Daura refinery, which supplies Baghdad with most of its gas; Khashab,...