> this is happening anyway, so they may as well make the money while they still can.

There's got to be a special name for that kind of treachery. I suppose "collaboration," but that doesn't have a nasty enough ring to it.

Like a fascist occupation, that dystopia isn't "happening anyway" without collaborators.

'Judas goat' perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat

"Somebody might do <bad thing> and get rich, might as well be me."

I just call these people "cowards"

Traitors to humanity

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