It's just the way things are...

I knew a woman who quit a job where she was being abused, but that's all. It could happen again, but to you, probably never. She takes a pay cut, and she finds other ways to be happy in life (fun extracurricular  activities!) If you were a woman, you could be her. There's no revolt. The abuser just keeps on being your esteemed colleague. On the surface, she is fine with this. She knows it's more important to fit in and stay on your good side than to speak out. This system hurts her more than it helps you, but it helps you more than it hurts her. And you like living in that world as long as you get a lot of compliments.

This is why you are a life lesson but most definitely not a role model: you benefit inadvertently from corruption, and women prop you up because that's the best they can do in order to survive in the environment you (probably not on purpose) help create by being so self-absorbed.

"But that's not true! He helps a lot of people! He gets us money and contacts and he's our hero!"

Bye.