First: You can’t really “pirate” citizenship in the same manner as torrents (digital files) since it has to be officially granted to you by a country after fulfilling prerequisites such as living on a visa > permanent residency alongside societal and cultural integration & high language proficiency before even being naturalized. Not talking about fake passports to travel abroad, as that in itself is considered a criminal offense worldwide.
Second: The job market, why can’t people just “pirate” employment (as in pretending to be a worker at a company, you can still be caught though since coworkers know each other for a while, they’re like “who the F are you?” as they haven’t seen your face before, you can excuse by saying: “I’m new around here”) and the catch is that you’re not listed on their payroll (nor their “personnel files”) meaning you’re a non-employee.
Is it because they’re impossible to “pirate” freely as both have prerequisites prior to acquisition or reward -
Before you can get a job & being hired for one: convince the recruiter via resume & cover letter if they’ll bother to read it at all, pass the job interview, that is if you managed to be called up for one but most applications are ignored & make sure to ace the probation period on securing employment, if they hired you. A real employee is listed on their payroll while someone pretending to be one of you won’t be paid for their work.
Before you can obtain a second passport (legally): you must live in the country legally for a set duration under the valid visa type (you get a job with a work visa, not a tourist one) then moving to PR, display good character, learning their language, being able to integrate yourself in local culture, customs and pass citizenship test after you’ve lived there for years on end proving you have integrated into their societal norms & culture.
It’s not comparable.
You can get a job and convince someone else to help you out. I’ve done that for someone (who works remotely). What you’re taking about if identity theft which may be a little different then piracy.
If I “pirate” a show or a movie or whatever, it’s not tied to my identity. Neither is anything of value lost (I wouldn’t have paid to see it).
Also, I don’t know how you’d get a job without a valid ID and bank account.
These things do happen. I read an article less than a year ago about a lady who pretended to be a nurse and worked in a hospital for quite a while. She was only discovered when she was going to be promoted and they realized she wasn’t certified.
The CIA and international criminals use identify brokers to disappear. There are organized criminal groups that will create a fake identity and cultivate it to adulthood—opening bank accounts, renting apartments, and taking on fake jobs to produce a fully functional blank identity with a history that can be verified. Then, they sell that identity to the highest bidder.
The only reason they can’t be pirated is that they are difficult to produce and often case specific. Nobody is going to do all that work for free, and it requires you to either be willing to take the risk yourself, or to have the money and connections for an experienced criminal to do years of work for you.
Piracy is piracy because copies can be reused indefinitely without significant further cost to the person sharing it. If uploading Shrek took 18 years of work and cost 100k+ for a single use, it wouldn’t be widely available either.
If you want you can put on a red polo, go to Target, and start helping customers and organizing shelves. But they’re not gonna pay you.
Well, you don’t legally own your pirated copy of Anvegers_Endgame(2019).mkv, either. Does that mean you didn’t pirate it?
Think of it as acquiring the benefits of something WITHOUT acquiring the legal status. For instance, you pirated a copy of a movie and you can effectively watch it whenver you want; however, you can’t, say, sell the rights for the novelization of that movie.
If you are in a country, and making money, and living, and using public services, you are effectively pirating citizenship. You are accruing many (but not all) the benefits of citizenship without officially attaining the title.
If you hung out in the coffee shop on the ground floor of a company and for two hours every day and made a lot of friends, you could eventually connive a very convincing cover story about working there. Then you could theoretically hack HR’s systems into giving you a paycheck and a badge, but if you could do that, you wouldn’t need to work.
Because citizenship, employment, and torrenting are not the same thing. Torrenting by itself isn’t the same as pirating either because there are a handful of non arrrr uses for the protocol in real life. This question has the same quality of: why can’t I eat an apple, a bicycle, and the categorical imperative? Are you that obtuse or a bot?
Because they can’t be done unilaterally.
You need someone else to actually put you on the payroll to ‘pirate’ a job. You need a government to document your citizenshipon in their databases.Pirating doesn’t require anyone else to do something for you.
