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It's not as simple as money, people are motivated by other things as well. There's no amount of money you could pay me to intentionally hurt children, but I'd do a lot of things to protect them. And a lot of things people say they're doing in the name of protecting them but has ulterior motives, so it's complicated.

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I agree, but broadly speaking it doesn’t change much that what I described breaks down at the level of an individual. There are very few instances where the global talent pool is small enough that individual beliefs become a constraint.

There’s (almost) always someone else out there that is willing to do it, and there’s (almost) always a dollar amount that you can’t turn down.

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