So if a company bribes a politician for favorable regulation, you view that as simply "good hacking"?

Social engineering is a form of hacking, and there are grey, white, and black hat forms of hacking. Hacks also vary in terms of skill, and elegance. What you describe sounds very script kiddie.

A good hacker uses every script at their disposal.

Agreed. It’s still hacking- it just might not be good hacking, in more than one sense of the word. So perhaps it depends on the nature of the hacker itself!

So a good hacker is whoever you decide has good nature?

Now you’re getting it!

Glad you aren't making the rules!

On the contrary, I have already made and set the rules for this tangent into semantics. Behold, social hacking in action.