You know, no matter how many times it happens, I'm always amazed at how people will do anything for money and defend the ones who do so. No morality, no principles, nothing that you simply will not do because it's wrong.
And then you sit and wonder why the world's going to shit instead of thinking "hmm, maybe it's because the average modern person is a vapid, materialistic scumbag, and I'm actually part of the problem for not refusing to go along with it".
I can get it to some extent to be fair. Everyone has a price, like it or not.
Once you start offering sums that are enough to develop into generational wealth, most people would fold and I couldn't blame them. It's easy to be very pragmatic and principled when you aren't given the opportunity with such a large temptation.
I am guilty of that myself by the simple virtue of knowing what it's like to be at the utter brink of homelessness & being powerless to do much more than just damage control.
Even though I'd like to say I wouldn't, realistically I'd take a six figure contract to promote gambling in an instant.
That being said I really think it isn't simple at all, it's a perfect storm in regards to societal developments, social attitudes, economy, etc built on the backbone of the very concept of currency that led us as a whole down the path of people selling out their neighbor for three pieces of silver. Just as an example, in my country we have one of very worst housing crisises. Social housing waitlists up to two decades long in desirable places, a decade in utter shitholes & private market lease prices that while the middle class can afford, they'd live like lower class due to how expensive it is.
And there's still people who block construction of much needed housing because of their own selfishness. Not even young familiee, I'm talking baby boomer and older that are trying to "protect their property value and safety" (Utter bullshit, properties WILL NEVER go down in value in this country) just to get an easy 50-150K buyout from the government. Not to move mind you, just to sign off on construction.
Money makes the world go round but the entire concept is also what drives people to be selfish assholes and has been doing so since the very first coin was minted. There's no changing that. Only thing you can influence is how much exactly most people are willing to sell out for.
