JOURNAL: Professional Pride in an Environment with No Rules

"These are technically sophisticated people who take pride in their work, and when we knock them down they don't just decide to go find something else to do. You could say we are breeding the perfect spammer." Jim Buckmaster, CEO Craigslist

This is a great quote that captures the idea that global crime has become professionalized, and that the increasingly sophisticated people that engaged in it take pride in their work/expertise.  Remember, capitalism doesn't have an intrinsic morality.  The only objective is to match supply with demand and make money doing it.   How you accomplish that goal is irrelevant.  

NOTE:  In a round about way, this is also one of the reasons why Russian and Chinese hackers are stomping all over US government and corporate networks.  Contrast the darwinian environment (pressures include everything from arrest to financial ruin) where these young professional criminals work with the financially generous (pay and pensions), tenured, and bureaucratically opaque world where the engineers in our technical intelligence agencies work.