The "ethics" of Kris Bryant's inevitable disappointment

Recently seen in the (free) "Hey Bill" section of Bill James Online:

I don't know that this is popularly thought to be an ethical issue, but I have noticed that when I write, for example, about the draft, someone's always going to jump in and say it's unethical to limit a player's choice.

Yes, maybe it is. It's also unethical for the Cubs to pretend that Kris Bryant's service time isn't on their minds at all. 

Well, I'm sorry but people behave unethically all the time. Is cheating on your taxes unethical? I think (or hope) that most of us would agree it is. But how many people don't report income? How many people pay their nannies or their gardeners under the table? Hey, at least Theo Epstein has the excuse of being accountable to a vast organization and its fans; when we hire workers off the books, it's almost purely from personal greed.

My point? There are ethics, and there are ethics. In an absolutely perfect world, maybe every single baseball player could choose his employer and get paid whatever the market might bear. But it's an imperfect world, and on a list of its imperfections, a young man earning a minimum of half a million dollars per year is way, way, way down the list.