17/10/08 Money is the root of all evil...

It is an age old adage 'money is the root of all evil' and I do believe it is true, now more so than ever. Society is at a downward spiral of materialism and the pursuit of wealth that almost every decision we make is motivated by financial and selfish gain: How do I benefit from this? How do I gain from this? Money has erroded our basic humanity and morality.
We live in times of zero accountability, lack of responsibility, superficiality, underhanded deception, corruption, collusion and outright cheating. The list goes on. Now I'm not saying that money causes all this, so does power, sex, anything that people want more than and above other people. But money will get us all that we want, just depends on how much money...The poor want to get richer, the rich will never get enough. We have become bitter and money is everything. Has our society come to such that without money we find no motivation to do anything worthwhile?
Will it and has it come to such that doctors won't take care of patients unless they can earn and earn a lot from them? I hear in America they're already ditching people who can't pay by the sidewalk. What have we become as people, can we still hold our head up? Have we become so shameless and thick skinned? Can we blame them when the world we live in encourages that kind of behaviour, not just in the medical industry but everywhere else? Nowadays everyone and everything has a price.
Whatever happened to decency and just helping people for the sake of it? It is sorely lacking nowadays. Even friends can betray you at the drop of a penny (well, definitely more than a penny, it's got to be enough money right?). I personally think it is our financial system that encourages that behaviour. Yet it is impossible to remove it as the world would grind to a halt.
So it is that the machine must be fed and we all march to our doom. The future does not look good for man. The end result is clear, our path is wrong and our ideals are in the wrong place. The inevitable end is that humans will destroy each other through greed and apathy.