This is only halfway true—if even that.

Money comes with strings attached. All of it. The more you have the more strings. And those strings will attach themselves to you as well if you happen to be the one holding it.

People like the Sacklers for example didn’t begin their journey to wealth by being inherently evil. The strings got a hold of them and they began a co-dependent relationship with what money represents to them which is power and control. Dave Chappelle put this beautifully one time by asking during an interview something to the effect of ‘what is really the difference in lifestyle between having $30 Million & $60 Million?’

They lost touch with Humanity for it. I bet you even with all of that wealth and ‘freedom’ those types are empty and miserable. How else can you do the things it takes to amass that much wealth with complete disregard for your fellow man? *It’s because they’re no longer a fellow of humanity.*

I don’t believe in a Soul in the biblical sense or a heaven and h### nor do I need to believe that he was the Son of G## to hear the absolute wisdom in what Jesus Christ of Nazareth meant by pointing out that it is easier for a camel to pass through a needle than it is for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of G##.

Those people will never enjoy Peace. And that’s their own doing. For a more lighthearted version of that same concept consider the ‘Curse’ in pirates of the Caribbean:

> There be the chest. Inside be the gold. And we took 'em all. We spent 'em and traded 'em and frittered 'em away on drink and food and pleasurable company. The more we gave 'em away, the more we came to realize the drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake our l###. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were, but now we are consumed by it. There is one way we can end our curse. All the scattered pieces of the Aztec gold must be restored and the blood repaid.

Who the f### wants that? Imagine not being able to enjoy something as simple as grilling burgers and hot dogs with your neighbors. Or simply being able to enjoy the company of people you love just for their own sake without any machinations towards their destinies to protect this pile of paper that has costed so much and demands even more.

We aren’t the ‘cogs in the machine.’ They are. When I go home I go home to my family and we are able to enjoy our time together because we can appreciate simplicity with the understanding that it’s our connection to each other that makes it so enjoyable. So yeah I go and work hard and come home with a lot less than they do. I come home tired and at times exasperated and overwhelmed. But there’s an earnestness and honesty about that they no longer have the capacity to appreciate or even recognize and as Bob Ross put it ‘you need the dark to bring out the light.’

You, I, my family and yours are in genuine Communion. They are not.

And they’re all the more foolish for it.

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