It seems to me if you're caught doing that you risk quite a bit of your future chances at an office job in a growing economy. I guess everyone has to make their own choices.
The chance of actually getting caught in this situation is really rather low...being unsuccessful, sure, but truly caught, prosecuted, etc, probably won't happen.
Today, yes. Tomorrow, next year, 5 years. You don't know. The more successful you are the more attention you'll get. Plenty of uncatchable people have been caught. Ulbricht, Gottfrid, ...