Agreed, it's a cold world and sometimes you gotta get your hands dirty.
Uh, no. It's more like "what he did was interesting, in the way that a lot admonishing things you should never do are interesting."
Yeah, just discouraging to see so many successful people using shady tactics. I think it's a lot more rewarding to succeed without being shady, and maybe a lot of people agree and that's just not newsworthy?