Everybody has a **price**. Human nature is as such – whatever pretences we may put up about our convictions; our red lines; our ‘nevers’ – the truth is at for the right price, with the right incentives, you can get anyone to do *anything*.
For the right **price**, anything could happen. History tells us as much. You could get a police officer to turn a blind eye to a speeding ticket for a thousand dollars. You could get enforcement agencies ignore lapses in your company’s compliance with the relevant laws for hundreds of thousands of dollars. You could even get a person to betray his country – to sell state secrets to the enemy, for millions of dollars and maybe an offer of asylum. So long as the **price** is *right*, nothing is impossible. And with the **knowledge** of one’s price, and the **means** to fulfil it, you can get anyone to do anything.