Excerpt from The Portal #27 with Eric Weinstein and Daniel Schmachtenberger.

EW: Yeah, so Brett’s point was if that (i.e. your virtuous participation in a complex system of relationships) becomes self-extinguishing then you’ll simply be replaced by something less ethical than you are so it’s actually incumbent upon you not to be so virtuous that you remove yourself from the game leaving open a niche for some less scrupulous person to swoop in…

DS: So this is how an unethical system convinces ethical people to compromise their ethics to become a tool for the system.”