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Yeoman's Twenty-third Law of Behavior: "All money corrupts, and big money corrupts bigly" Oliver Bullough.
Certain societies worship wealth, but this rule is invariably true, although there are plenty of individual exceptions.
Wealth corrupts, it simply does. The New Testament councils that "Love of money is the root of all evil", and while some people acquire vast wealth simply because they love work, quite often it's mixed in with the love of money. Beyond that, money at some point both blinds people to the consequences of their own actions, and to the realities of that.
The corruption of money keeps people working in positions they should yield to younger people who are kept from moving up, and therefore kept at a fiscal and societal disadvantage. It leads to the destruction of land, people, and the environment. And big money nearly invariably brings in extra corruption on a personal level.
Big money attracts sycophants who assure the wealthy person that his actions are benign, or that he's smart, and deserves to be the exception to the rule. It reduces people to objects, and allows people to believe that their personal destruction of others is merited.
“No one can serve two masters.m He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew, Chapter 6.
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