Sufficient incentives can corrupt even trustworthy individuals. [contrarian]
If the incentives are ‘right’, even a trustworthy person can be relied upon to be untrustworthy. ‘Every man has his price’: repugnant though it is to our sensibilities, the cliché captures the view that no one awards an infinite weight to his own honesty.
Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking…, loc. 821