Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people?

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Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people? - Lemmy.World

I was gonna include a third option about how money is easier to achieve without considering the morality of your actions but that’s not really a philosophy as much as it is an objective fact.

Corrupt people will be attracted to money.

A lot of otherwise honest people will become corrupt if they see others being corrupt and getting away with money and prestige from it.

A few percent of people will never be corrupted.

I’d say it’s this entirely. Honest people don’t seek money, but if they see their peers getting grapes instead of cucumbers for literally no just cause, then that injustice cannot go unanswered unless they get their grapes too.
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