The power of money (#370)

It is just amazing to me what the power of money can do to people. It is as if nothing else in life is as important than having as much means to barter as is possible. It is only curious that most people's only consideration for life and existing is directly proportional to how much money one can obtain. I know the value of money and having enough to maintain somewhat of a healthy lifestyle I consider appropriate. Not congruently however, the lust or thirst for more and more means of barter reflects an incomplete thought process centered on selfish instincts. The idea that a craving for money is a healthy capitalist view is often mistaken as an honorable view. I would disagree in principle because an arbitrary concept of acquisition cannot be what the miracle of life should be centered on. I have always considered that the importance of means of barter should have less to do with acquisition and more to do with benevolence. To explain the benefit of benevolence versus acquisition is somewhat obvious but for the sake of putting the words down in print, let me say that giving is a pleasure and receiving for the sake of receiving is not a principled ideal. Often money is the only factor for the sexes in finding each other. Instead of ideals of character and personality.