It was a privilege to help other people and in helping other people we gained a little bit of substance or quality to our own life. Along with earning an honest living, it was imperative to also develop substance to your way of life. We learned as we grew into adulthood and our needs became more and more personal that there eventually was a bottom line. We could only go as far as our earnings would take us. And with the earning of money we could also gain power and respect, but as you grew in the endeavors pursued, you were also evaluated by what kind character you developed in achieving your goals.
Human beings seem to give their adoration to the celebrity, the wealthy and the powerful.
I m sure this affectation is not a recent phenomenon but it is certainly a misdirected emotion. Money is not the achievement that gives life substance to thrive on, although we must have money to survive. Money is the symbol of trade by which one serves another for work performed, or by which we purchase products. To amass wealth does not necessarily mean that one works any harder than anyone else. I could very well be standing in a mountain stream, cooling my feet when suddenly I notice a gold nugget rolling along, and then another, and another.