Yep, for those of us who can read, the point of the comment was that not everyone has as many options as programmers.

Was anyone here speaking exclusively about programmers?

Replying to myself as this could have been misunderstood: programmers are not going hungry in the US, and yet, comply with things they may consider unscrupulous. We shouldn't, even if we were starving, but that's a tall order for most human beings.

I'm not intransigent, but I try not to redraw the line of how low I'll go according to context.