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We are working through a computer problem at work, where data was at my fingertips, but I lost it, through a series of errors, and by some stroke of fortune (savings of time and effort) my wife had saved backup copies from last year, which is much better than saving no data.
Anyway, that places me away from this terminal.
"What happens if the best game in town, the highest paying job, is Legal Fraud, Legal Extortion, and all the Legal Torture and Mass Murder required to keep that game going?"
I think that the sentence is a typical example of how the reader may have too much work thrown at the reader all at once.
How about this:
When the best game in town (the highest paying job) is Legal Fraud, Legal Extortion, and all the Legal Torture and Mass Murder required to keep that going, the observer can know precisely how much crime pays by following that money trail as it pays out, because the authorities are notoriously good at keeping accurate records.
So, as may be seen, the effort to make things easier may actually work, in my case, toward making things more difficult.
Canning tomatoes may look easy, for example, but actually having nourishing food stored for later use, having the food right there when the consumer opens the can, is easy, looks easy, at that point, in that place, from that competitive viewpoint.