As with a lot of other topics I'd love to say "just as long as it's consistent", but the world we live in right now I just feel like a lot of this attitude is a

As with a lot of other topics I'd love to say "just as long as it's consistent", but the world we live in right now I just feel like a lot of this attitude is adding selfish noise. There's a far more cynical part of my mind that says that's the whole point. How else do you extract value sometimes?