@SilverF0x Simply stumbling across good fortune doesn’t corrupt you. It’s possible to win the lotto and only do good things with the money acquired. They were corrupt before the wealth. The wealth only gave them the means to exacerbate what was already bad.

@Reject We all succumb to greed. Just different tolerance

@SilverF0x Well, I’m sure everyone who’s ever committed a crime would love that defense. It lets them excuse their faults. Society won’t care though. Neither will anyone else who genuinely wants the best for people. Nothing can corrupt you. You made your bed and you’ll lie in it.

@tenente Yes. Wealth is good at that

@jshm2 I have to disagree. If that were true there would be no corrupt rich people. We know there are plenty

@EldritchFox Yes. I think the first statement is almost always true. Rich people get corrupted by greed

@Musicman Some of them yes. Only if they have something of value to offer