Ineed to make a general question and to respond my thoughts(as widely as possible) on this text: (it's for sociology) from your earliest childhood it has been drilled into you that you must become successful, must ‘make money’. money means comfort security, power. it does not matter who you are, you are valued by what you are ‘worth’, by the size of your bank account. so you have been taught, and everybody else has been taught the same. can you wonder that every one’s life becomes a chase for money, for the dollar and your whole existence is turned into a struggle for possession, for wealth? the money hunger grows on what it feeds. the poor man struggles for a living, for a bit of comfort. the well-to-do man wants greater riches to give him security and protect him against the fear of to-morrow. and when he becomes a big banker he must not relax his efforts, he must keep a sharp eye on his competitors, for fear of losing the race to some other man. so every one is compelled to take part in the wild chase, and the hunger for possession gets ever stronger hold of man. it becomes the most important part of life; every thought is on money, all the energies are bent on getting rich, and presently the thirst for wealth becomes a mania, a madness that possesses those who have and those who have not.