If he wants to look good for banning some scary technology thing, maybe he should start with something easier - like getting porn off the Internet.
I don't think you understand any good god fearing red blooded American is all for porn, just so long as it isn't any stranger than what they look at.
My wife grew up poor. If you had $1, you spent it. Her spending expands to absorb all available funds.
I actually had the opposite where I grew up poor but my family at the time was very thrifty and tried to save and not spend all the time. We did get government assistance but learning about delayed gratification and how to enjoy the simple thing was important and has helped out immensely. Later in my childhood my parents got a divorce and my mother remarried to a better off individual and they were well into the upper quintile but spent every cent they made and then some so now they don't have a pot to piss in. My father continued to be thrifty and started doing better in his career though never being rich or an upper income earner is fairly well off. My wife on the other hand grew up in a family that was in the upper quintile and never had to want and would regularly get what ever she wanted. She spends like crazy and has the mentality of "look how much I saved" when she went and spend a bunch of money on things she doesn't need.
I think it is the parent's mentality towards money that has a greater effect on how a child views money. While my situation was probably more unique in that I got to see first hand both ends it is illustrative of the underlying problem.
Plus would you hire someone who did that? Me neither. Such a person would raise all kinds of red flags about how they would game the system at my company.
Depends on the position. If we are talking engineers probably not but that may be "just the right kind of out of the box thinking" needed for the standard MBA types.
"There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity." - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"