I'm nowhere near as idealistic as I used to be ten years ago, but even from a pragmatic ( or plainly opportunistic) point of view, it is hard to argue that those instances in which you can take advantage of people's ignorance or stupidity significantly offset all the garbage situations and policies forged by the idiocracy that in the end affect us all (unless you are ridiculously rich and powerful, that is).

P.S.
Sometimes your posts here on Steemit remind me of this mini-sketch in Freakazoid: