It's an unfortunate song.
"The clinking clanking clunking sound."
Then this week, I saw this sign in someone's office.
It was hung under a framed dollar bill, and said:
"VERY IMPORTANT MONEY FIRST"
It doesn't say G-d first, or family, or integrity, or compassion, or anything meaningful and good.
No, instead just money.
What is wrong with people?
Yes, we all need money to live.
Life isn't free.
There are bills to pay and money to be saved for a rainy day.
But, "money first"???
"Very important!"
There is definitely something wrong with some people's values.
They think:
To hell with doing the right thing if you can make lots of money.
To hell with being honest in business if you can make more money.
To hell with earning a decent day's pay for an honest day's work.
No, to some misguided people, it's simply money first.
And money also means power.
More, more, more...at almost any cost that is.
Sell your souls to the devil for a buck fifty.
Is the temporary satisfaction that money can buy you really worth it.
No, money is not first, and never should be.
Money is a means to an end, but never an end in itself.
Money is not the root of all evil, but perhaps underlying greed is.
Take that awful sign down and the dollar bill in the shiny frame at the very top of the wall too! ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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