Get rich without getting caught - is that a new survival instinct?

[Nik]

Doesn't matter how many skeletons one has in the closet, if s/he made it big time then the aim justifies the means.
You don't need to be moral, good, nice, compassionate or anything really to become super rich, best-selling, most successful, etc. What really matters that you get away with anything you do uncaught.
Lance Armstrong was the cycling king, but he "got caught". In sports they become more stringent with the doping. In biz or in lit - not so much.. I guess the dimension of phony reviews in lit or shady deals in biz, for example, is hardly smaller than doping in sports, however the 'doping control' is way laxer.
So, is 'do anything, don't get busted' a new survival instinct?

[Nik]

We have many competitions in life, sport, biz. In sports they are very meticulous about "purity" of the achievements and some seemingly great sports(wo)men are sometimes stripped of all titles, if caught red-handed.
How "pure" is the competition in other spheres: political, economical, scientific? What do you think?

[Philip]

Corrupt and rigged throughout but I am a cynic

[Scout]

Hey, Nik, good question. There's nothing pure about most things these days. I've noticed recently that if people get caught, they play the game. And there are rules of the game. Deny, deny. Wait for the news cycle to move on. And most of the time, people forget. Everyone knows it's a game. But what about the truth?