Well yeah, as long as you can't have your engineering degree stripped away for doing unethical things like the OP, and be forbidden to even code for other peopl

Well yeah, as long as you can't have your engineering degree stripped away for doing unethical things like the OP, and be forbidden to even code for other people for free - like AFAIK it's the case for doctors violating the Hippocratic Oath - then the situation will not get better !