Well, let's spin it around. How can you have self esteem when you simply accept a pay packet to solve someone else's problems on their behalf, while they reap t

Well, let's spin it around. How can you have self esteem when you simply accept a pay packet to solve someone else's problems on their behalf, while they reap the full reward? (Obviously I don't know the nature of your job exactly - this is from the perspective of a typical tech employee). People gain self-esteem in many different ways. Sad as it is, the teacher's last ditch warning to the uncaught cheater "you are only fooling yourself" does not necessarily work on the type of person who is inclined to cheat. It's quite possible the Hatton garden thieves, having liberated a lot of property from what they would consider the underserving rich, felt absolutely GREAT about themselves. They were caught due to boasting about the crime after all.