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It's more about power. Wealthy people have more power and their corruption causes more widespread effects. Plus, uncorrupted officials don't support corrupted s
by yetihehe 5y ago
It's more about power. Wealthy people have more power and their corruption causes more widespread effects. Plus, uncorrupted officials don't support corrupted subordinates, so high-level corruption breeds more low-level corruption, or as they say "The fish spoils from the head".
- nickpp 5y agoBut corruption itself if used to become wealthy. Such a rich person will be corrupted and corrupt furthermore. Positions of power will attract people who are willing to be corrupted. Is a very important motivator for politicians. Being rich is the end result, not the starting point. The starting point is a poor society but with valuable points of power which are not privately owned.
- boringg 5y agoAgain it's not about wealth, it's about people and power. Wealth has power attributes to it and is many cases a proxy to power. However many government officials have incredible amounts of power but little wealth. Look at any communist party officials over the history of time you will see incredibly levels of corruptions without any wealth AND they aren't doing corrupt work for other people, they are doing it for their own benefit (To refute your idea that some wealthy person is behind their corruption).