Go to school, then be ‘too smart’ for the job market, but not smart enough to not be replaced by a H1B visa that the employer can use to force sub-mimimum wage conditions on someone else.

Just another way to get people into the poverty spiral, extra credit if they move laterally into the prison slave labor spiral.

This one works in my company. If you have a ticket with no actionable items (you can’t do anything to improve it or it is complete), then you use that lack of actionable items to make a timer to close it, or pressure the team you’re waiting on.