Also, there's a difference between "willing to do a bad thing for money" and "actively searching out a bad thing, then proactively building a whole company out of it in the hopes of making money."

It's the difference between a developer taking a job at Palantir out of college because nobody had a better offer, and a guy spending years in his basement designing "Immigrant Spotter+" in the hopes of selling it to the government. Sure, they're both evil, but lots of people pick the first thing, and hardly anybody does the second.