[doomboiardee]

Assuming they meant it as in it's unavoidable.

We should still be frustrated by it, but I think I get what they were getting at.

[fifilura]

FWIW when i replied the OP was phrased differently. Like corruption had its place in a healthy society. But fine to rephrase, clearer now.

[runarberg]

When you tie money to power (i.e. capitalism) people will use money to buy more power, and their power the gain more money.

This is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. The system is working as intended.

Luckily capitalism is not the only system available to us, and we can find a system which is not inherently corrupt.

[p91paul]

I think that's not capitalism, that's human nature. On every possible power structure you can think of, there will be people available to compromise on their moral principles if given the right incentives to do so. Under capitalism that's easily money, under other systems it might be something else. You can work to mitigate or detect and deter it (the amount of effort put on that is what makes the difference between limited and widespread corruption). You cannot hope to eliminate it entirely.