Unlike the big companies who do this, which often are merely impure scams on tax payer money a little more downstream.
Great, now we're defending embezzlement and fraud with public funds on HN, because we really really hate big business.
A child caught doing something bad will cry "but my friends also did it!", is that the level of reasoning hackers want to be at?
Companies that generate loads of corporation tax, income tax, and VAT revenue are the exact opposite of wastes of public money.