I am currently taking compliance training (bribery) remotely.

The crime of bribery is not limited to money or goods, but applies to any object or thing that provides a benefit to the person concerned.

Even if something is completely worthless to another person, it can be considered a "bribe" if it is beneficial to the person concerned.

I am not an honorable person, and I would like to have money and goods, but I don't have the kind of stuff that would get me fired or subject me to criminal penalties as an alternative.

Besides, I think emotions (grudges and revenge) are more effective in moving me than money or goods.

Also, the things I "really" want often occur out of the blue.

For example.

"I want you to do something about the Docker that suddenly stopped working."

"No matter how much I review the program, it doesn't work. I need you to suggest a cause."

"In AWS configuration, packets do not cross the firewall. I need to know how to configure it correctly."

This means that the provision of such information may also be considered a "bribe" under the law.

However, unless the inducement of profit is objectively recognized, it may be difficult to qualify it as a "bribe."

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When I was posting the above "whining" on my blog, if a person who kindly gave him advice included his company name in his email, etc...

I may end up memorizing the name of the company because it made such a good impression on the person.

I think.

I know this is a very ambiguous way of doing things, but I think this kind of "kindness" can be a good sales strategy (x bribe).

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There was a president of a venture company who used to write in my column, "Ebata is boasting about their technological capabilities.

This guy dissed me on a social networking site where he disclosed his company name and personal name, and I remember thinking, 'Oh, he's a genuine idiot'.

I have no intention of interfering with this company's business activities, but I have vowed to 'never respond to this guy and never deal with his company's products.

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After all, it is difficult to separate the public from the private.

Because the two are connected by "feelings" -- not to mention the "Yasukuni shrine issue".