Thinking more of white-collar crime than working-class crime, I feel that my parents were pretty careful to set my moral compass in the right direction when I w

Thinking more of white-collar crime than working-class crime, I feel that my parents were pretty careful to set my moral compass in the right direction when I was growing up, but that exposure to the financial industry, the advertising industry and (especially) the diplomatic community has made me a lot more cynical about the prevalence of self-serving amoral behaviour amongst the "professional" classes. I am saddened to witness a creeping corruption in my own sense of right and wrong, as I see that success and wealth seem to be more highly correlated with cynical manipulation and self-promotion than humility and careful moral decision-making.