One aspect not to neglect is that those incentivizing their falls will prey on basic humans flaws, sex, power, fame, social status, and will make what those fallen wanted independent of the will of the fallen, meaning that they can lose it all at the will of the incentiver.
However there is a fatal flaw in this black mail logic, is that it takes a life on its own. the blackmailed will expand in cells, meaning that the hellishness will spread in the entire apparatus that the incentiver wanted to control making their shit flawed...
if builder of the wall of china were each stealing bricks... or if an army builds fake swords... generally it's shattered glass analogy, at once all is gone, and only what was real that is left...
a swamp is a too kind word...