These are dividends to be reaped at a later date. And the inability to secure software and hardware systems will be the ultimate justification.
The great irony in all of our endeavors is that if you make all of your decisions in an effort to avoid becoming something, you just wind up taking the long way around and backing into being the thing you didn’t want to become in the first place.
See Google:Evil, Apple:1984, Microsoft:The Borg, Larry Ellison:A Lawnmower
And the list of individuals who became what they most despised is quite long as well.