Love of Money...the root of all evil

There was a guy at work who died recently.  A black man, whose name was Jerome.  I'll use his real name, even though it is against my policy, because he probably won't mind.

Jerome liked to say that "it's a white man's world, and I'm just trying to live in it."  Once upon a time, I told him something I thought was hard-hitting.  This was several years ago, long before I started this blog.  I told him that--- the dumbest crime you could commit would be to rob a bank.  That's because the solution rate of that crime was nearly 80%.  If you were to kill somebody, your chances were a lot better.  That shows where our society's priorities are....  Yeah.

If Jerome was alive to day, I would add that the new slave master is money.  You work for money, money doesn't work for you.  That's what's wrong with it.  It is a good bet that almost everything that has gone wrong in this society is wrapped up in the fact that people put too high a value upon the acquisition of money.

Should we all be poor then?  No.  But a proper sense of values would put money on down the scale.  If society cares more about money than people, what kind of society is that?