[squintychino]

To use your 4x money argument - Why couldn't you care at least about 2x money? Or even 1x money? For the sake of being friends with your "friends"?

Friendship isn't an all or nothing proposition. You don't have to be perfectly aligned with another persons' morals and values to be friends with them. Sometimes just having one or two things in common is what is needed to keep those bonds going.