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by NL807 335 days ago
>progress their career

i.e. money

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someone was bribed != people are motivated by financial gain
That is a self-contradictory statement. If people were not motivated by financial gain, then bribery would not exist. You could say people might be motivated by power and influence, but even those things boil down to one singular thing, and that is accumulating wealth.