Greed, and power stem from one of two things. One of those things as you can tell by the title is money. The other thing is brute force.
Money can buy you anything you want, therefor it is natural and greed should follow with the money. With money you also have power. The power to buy and sell things, and occasionally people in certain cases.The power to get the things they want and do the things they wish to do.
Brute force is just as powerful as having money. You can manipulate people by forcing them to do something. Controlling people with threats and violence can be just as powerful as controlling them with money. Sometimes it is even more powerful than money, people can turn down money, but the threat of violence can move mountains when even a high dollar amount won’t.
Is money really the root of all evil? Other countries have oil which means that they have money, but the United States has the brute force behind it. Does that mean that the countries are threatened? No because with their money they can buy protection against the force and then they would have both the power of money and force.
So is money really the root of all evil, is it really as powerful as people say, or is it the money with the force to back it up that is the true power?
