"So you think that money is the root of all evil?" ["Atlas Shrugged" EXCERPT] DEEEEEP!!!

Have you ever asked what is the root of money?  Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them.  Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value.  Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or the looters who take it from you by force.  Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? ...Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into bread you need to survive tomorrow. ...Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.  Destroyers seize gold and leave its owners a counterfeit pile of paper.  This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values... Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.  Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims.  Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

This is an excerpt from the renowned book "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand.  I won't go into the details of this novel, but this excerpt, in particular, refers to people the author calls "moochers" and "looters".  Most likely the "moochers being the poor, and the "looters" being the rich (not the wealthy; there is a difference) and the politics.  


Now, you ALREADY know I won't go into Bible scripture, but actually quote is, "The LOVE for money is the root of all evil."  But it's natural for people to get that twisted; being money's conspicuous attribution to the way people change once they get it, as well as how they fiendishly they seek it.


But I bring this up because the excerpt makes such a great point behind the stupidity of lay people demonizing the concept of money in itself.  Most of those people heed to such credence out of upbringing or sheer ignorance and comfort.  


On the flipside, it also points out who the REAL evil is...us.  This was the conclusion I drew after taking an audience to the 2010 Oliver Stone sequel "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps".  Vengeance, power, love, greed, characteristics that make us noble can just as well make us evil.  Our motives and intents are what make us who we are.  


So why demonize something inanimate, when it's ourselves we should hold accountable?  Is it easier that way?  Is it in our nature?


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