Here's the gist of it. We all know that there are many of us writers who work for companies that other people here consider as hell spawn. Like them, most of us also dislike these companies that we work for, since we have been on the receiving end of their unfair practices at least a couple of times. However, we continue to work for these companies for lack of better options and since at the end of the day, we still earn way better from them than we would in any other job.

Here are my questions:

1.) Does anyone have a right to call us criminals simply because we work for such companies?

2.) Should we be castigated in this forum if we honestly reveal that contrary to the experiences of others, we were paid and are valued by these companies?

3.) Is the morally correct option to quit writing for such companies because of their unfair business practices?

Let me be the first to answer these questions:

1.) No.

2.) No.

3.) No. The moral foundation of this entire industry is nonexistent. We provide homework to students for Pete's sake. In high school, if you did your classmate's homework and your teacher found out about it, you'd be sent to the principal's office to be reprimanded or worse. In graduate school, if you gave your classmate your research paper for him to pattern his to and the work turns out as very similar to yours, you'd still get in trouble since graduate programs emphasize the requirement for students to work independently when it came to actually writing their papers.

Please feel free to express your opinions.