[JohnFen]

What you're saying here is really "everybody has a price". That's never a flattering observation.

[phkahler]

But it's almost always true.

[paulryanrogers]

With education and life experience our 'prices' can change for the better. And with collective action we can make the world better than it was before us. Consider that simply being an informed, relatively independent voter is a collective action too.

[JohnFen]

Perhaps, but only if you count nonmonetary things as part of the definition of "price".

However, that doesn't make it ethically supportable.