The recurring complaints and concerns about ethics on this thread are so annoying and irrelevant. I was hoping for more hard and objective barriers to consider. Rather than a focus on ethics, I'm more concerned about the calculated risks. Should you steal or outright overpromise something you cant deliver? No. Should an employee provide services through a shadow LLC that he/she is capable of delivering results on at a fair price instead of cucking my time and labor for free (due to be salaried)? Probably not. This is part of the reason why so many companies are suboptimally operating or nearing collapse....huge deficits of out-of-the-box thinking and drowning in feels.