If no one else is playing by the rules, why should you? When you're just starting out, you hope you are small enough to fly under the radar. When you are big e

If no one else is playing by the rules, why should you? When you're just starting out, you hope you are small enough to fly under the radar. When you are big enough for government to care, you hopefully have enough money and lobbiest to influence (read: by) government officials. It's a myth that is perpetuated by those in power, to keep power: If you play by the rules, you'll succeed. If you don't, your break your social contract, or worse, bad for society and must be punished. In America they say "Crime doesn't pay." What they really mean "The crimes that the poor and middle class commit don't pay."