tron 1982 is a supremely weird movie but the hardest part to suspend disbelief for is that if the CEO illicitly gets rich off stealing your creative work, you just need to provide 1 piece of hard evidence that this happened and then you are the new CEO
I guess just as the programs are knights and gladiators in this fantasy, the secret data was like some kind of magical sword that makes you king
“strange programs lying about in computers distributing printouts is no basis for a system of government”
“YES IT IS it’s like 86 times better than how they make upper-management hiring decisions in MY universe”