Money

Is that all it boils down to in the end?

Pink Floyd sung about “Money” – great tune – and it seems their drummer, Nick Mason, is about to come into a lot (more) of it through auctioning off his “pop art” McLaren F1 GTR for a cool US$35m (or £25m in the King’s money). Money feels like the only thing people are caring about these days and to an extent I understand. However, I’m not even sure if you go get a good job with more pay, you’re okay. Nevertheless, before we grab that cash with both hands and make a stash, I must stop making references to the song.

Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash.

For the love of money

Is the root of all evil

Tell me, what good is a book

In an illiterate world?

Millionaires, Billionaires, Trillionaires

A proxy for success, no?

Sometimes the stench of egos

We need something to musk their smell

You can only drive one car at a time

Live in one house

And travel to one destination

The sickness of fame grants immunity to such thoughts

Fight to get it

Don’t want to share it

Jack or be jacked

Hands off my stack

Distribute wealth

Just not mine

Share it fairly

Slice of pie, not mine, but thine

Wealthy people stay wealthy

Because they don’t give it away

Most generosity is committed

By normal people, every day

Money no guarantee of morality

Wealth no guarantee of taste

It’s assault and battery

With a stack of rolled up fifties

You can’t eat money

You can’t drink it either

It won’t protect you from the cold nor the searing heat

It won’t comfort you when your partner cheats

Money only has value

When the environment is stable

Convincing the people against their interests

The oldest of fables

What happens when it is the primary goal?

Degeneracy and deadly sins

When it is not?

It’s fun, it’s a gas!

It gives you an excuse to pursue certain things,

to live a certain way,

to treat people in a particular manner,

it magnifies who you truly are

From canned food to caviar

What are you prepared to accept?

Your type of dinner changes

When your level of dinar changes

Purpose in this life and in the next

To take care of yourself and your family

To the best of your ability

With whatever resources you have

Some of us have more, some have less

What to do about that?

If it’s all we ever care about

It will be a bitter end

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