The nasty dilemma that capitalism poses is that of "take the moral high ground" vs "know whether I'll afford rent next month". It's not your moral compass that

The nasty dilemma that capitalism poses is that of "take the moral high ground" vs "know whether I'll afford rent next month". It's not your moral compass that determines your worth to society, it's how much people are willing to pay you for your work. If they aren't, you are worth so little to society that you may be out of a home. Developers may be in a pretty sweet situation, generally, but if you don't have money saved or another job lined up you don't have much choice. I also think that people are great at finding excuses for what we're doing. I've read somewhere about a hypothesis that conscious thought is mostly just intellectual justification for subconscious urges.