I know a professor that routinely steals, and if he gets caught he gets violent. There is a factor of the effect you say, but he's really, really smart. For ove

I know a professor that routinely steals, and if he gets caught he gets violent. There is a factor of the effect you say, but he's really, really smart. For over 15 years now, he creates new connections faster than he burns through them. Plus, let's not pretend other professors don't burn through connections ... but they cause burnouts in other people. This guy is very smart and can be incredibly helpful, he has much less burned out students than many others. He just also steals and has gotten violent at work. He really understood earlier than his colleagues that making tools for citations works pretty well, he's not getting fired any time soon. Credit to the article: he's no longer married, so I guess that is an indicator. I know a CEO that has caused traffic accident and did a hit-and-run, was caught, and used company resources for his personal defense, and succeeded at it (he got it down to having his driver's license revoked for a year. So obviously the company "had to" pay for a driver for him). He's still CEO. I know a senior engineer that crashed his company car ON PURPOSE, because he was refused to have it traded out. Management decided to forgive and forget, and trade out the car. I know a director of a hospital that has falsified other people's grades (out of jealousy), and gotten caught doing that. She's not getting fired any time soon either. Her dad, by the way, is rich. He got rich through corruption. Like literally, you can google his name and you will find it. And, I've done business with a senior management figure, someone you know, that got kicked from the company for getting convicted having some of his friends rape his secretary. It was probably not the first time he did that, just the first time he got caught. So ... no, I don't think dishonesty causes poverty. Frankly, I must say, about most people in higher positions I know I have my suspicions. It's much worse in sales than engineering, but it's not absent. Also, what is honesty? I'm an expat. Yes I'm honest in the sense that I don't steal for example, or that I take responsibility for an accident in traffic if it's my fault. I'm not like these people above here (that said, I started out dirt poor and, frankly, I have stolen twice. Didn't get caught. I just couldn't deal with not having access to ... I feel incredibly bad because the store I stole something (valued at maybe 150 euro) from went bankrupt 2 years later). That said I lie. First about me & my wife's background (we do not come from the same place, don't share religion, yet we have kids, which is not at all a problem between us, but IS a problem for some people we know). I lie about my kids education (I downplay it A LOT, because you just won't believe the animosity it generates, and, yes, I used money to fix problems they encountered)