by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: August 10, 2011   Last Updated: August 12, 2011

The love of money is the foundation by which all other problems sprout from. In today’s society, more so than ever before, the rich continue to thrive while the poor continue to become poorer. The love of money is put before everything else. It is the single, most important factor in society today. If you have enough money, then the world is your oyster. However, if you do not have any at all, then society casts you aside without a second thought.

We look upon money now as the ‘new God’, We worship this new ‘idol’ because it can bring us the things that we have always wanted. Money can make our lives much more comfortable, and can also bring us the respect we may have craved for. However, in saying that, money can also bring us ‘fickle friends’. These are the people who are only friends as long as you have your money. Once the money is gone, then so is their ‘friendship’. When one has money it is’ fickle friends’ you will always find.

Money brings respect, prestige and power, and this is why people love money so much. However, when one does not have enough money, then society casts you aside and puts you on the scrapheap. The love of money has become the one and only thing that matters in this society, and the love of money dominates our every waking moment. It is all about how we can obtain it, how we can keep it, and how we can get more of it.

Bankers make huge bonuses and in the process cause a recession that sees the poor pay more for the bankers errors. The huge financial gap between rich and poor becomes ever wider as each year passes by, and yet the poor dream of becoming rich, and the rich dream of becoming richer.

The love of money will always come first in this society, because that is what matters. Money is something that we all understand, and that we all strive to have more off. Money drives every part of our lives, and it is the gateway to a far better life than we may have now.  Yet too much money, as described above, can bring its own problems.

Friends can be friends [as long as your money lasts] once it has gone, then so do they. So one can never know - when one has money - just how ‘true’ your friends may be towards you. For those who happen to be rich, this is the question that troubles them the most. A love of money can bring you loneliness, and a sense of emptiness.

This is because no matter how much money one may have, it cannot bring you ‘true happiness’, or 'true friendship'. There are many who know this yet still search for it, and still want it - to the detriment of everything else. And it is almost as if we, as a human species, have become pre-programmed to love money for money’s sake, within this society.

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