Revenue streams let institutions rationalize shielding predators from accountability.

Evidence

The lesson was clear: Systems of power and profit could shield predators. As long as revenue kept flowing, institutions were content to look the other way. Money served as the ultimate tool for norm evasion—and for many, that was the core appeal of getting rich. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 588

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: This continues the sacrifice/complicity theme from On Sacrifice — the calculus by which communities tolerate atrocity when transactions keep flowing.