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I might be missing something, but this (and the rest of your post) reads basically like Marxist propaganda. Are you seriously suggesting that anyone who makes a lot of money has done so through "corruption"? I would hope LW was one of the places on the internet that this sort of "truism" could be avoided. Just about the only way to make a lot of money is to do something that other people want doing, and which you do better than average.
I'm seriously struggling to parse this sentence, but it seems to be essentially saying that you're going to stick with your gut instinct that working for a high-powered law firm can't possibly be as good as working for a nice fluffy non-profit, and damn the numbers.
This really isn't true. But if you said "the ways to make money we're talking about" then we'd be fine. The most morally objectionable job I've seen suggested on LW is working in finance, and the worst you can do there is be a con man (though on a pretty massive scale).
Caveat Certain financial actions may increase the likelihood or magnitude of a financial crisis. Financial crises are bad on the scale of the finance sector and so this is significant on the margin.