I don't know that financial success is the be-all end-all measuring stick that I want to measure my code against. It is important because I also like to eat and sleep in a bed. But most any talented engineers could make vastly more money doing shady stuff. But very few do and that's a fact that I find rather amazing and gives me great pride in this profession.

Point is simply that I don't want to throw out all measures of quality of craftsmanship except financial.

I love Bob Martin's line that the dirty secret of programmers is that we'd still do it whether they paid us or not.