> It’s truly depressing to have to accept that the only way to make a living in a field is to compromise your principles.

Isn't that what money is though, a way to get people to stop what they're doing and do what you want them to instead? It's how Rome bent its conquests to its will and we've been doing it ever since.

It's a deeply broken system but I think that acknowledging it as such is the first step towards replacing it with something less broken.