"Terrible for the people but not for the pocket." Profiting off of misfortune- It seems the sort of thing a Tal Vashoth might do. What she has been told they do. Causing the misfortune in the first place seems more along the lines of what she'd heard in Par Vollen. "What is the weirdest job you've taken?"

Weird isn't terrible. Weird is- strange and often harmless.