He went on to talk about treasure with God. Of course, greed is bad for life in this world as well as its affect on our relationship with God. A little emergency arousal might achieve great things, but living constantly in pursuit of more consumption goods may lead to an early death from various causes. In fact it is probably, here, at the point of idolatry, devotion to powers other than God, that wealth is most dangerous. It is closely related to pride.
Money is something rather special, precisely because it is a medium of exchange.
Money or wealth that can be traded gives us great freedom and power. That is the real danger, even if it is good to celebrate the liberty that escape from poverty can bring to us. The danger is that we tend then to think that we can order our own lives as we wish and do whatever pleases us. Any devotion, whether it be to possessions, land, family, race or nation, that alienates us from God and our fellow human beings so easily give rise to a sense of pride which when challenged tends to justify feelings of fear and hated that lead to war. When we have such power we tend to think we have a right to whatever we can get, and to feel a sense of outrage when we cannot have what we expect.