Join the Consortium. We don't pirate for money, we pirate for people. We don't smoke cardi, we use it to fuel our war machines. We don't smuggle artifacts, we make them go boom.
Not to mention the fact that we get the GC as our adorable best friends. And the odd Outcast and Corsair women.
Also, we're TRANSHUMAN. Better then regular humans, and sexier and more appealing to women too, given our superior intelligence and blindly submissive nature...