As a former employer who paid people to do this, I'll make this easy: If you're gonna code for money, and you're part of a development team, your code better follow whatever readability standards your company has set. Period, end of story.
If that means I want you to use white space, tab-indent your code 4 spaces, camelize your variable names, provide pre-conditions and post conditions for your functions and comment explicitly enough so that it actually describes what code is supposed to be doing as well as log any edits that you make to the code...
...then your ass better do it.
If you're coding for youself, who cares? I don't have to read your code, so do what you want.