We live in a world where money buys you everything. It is also the reason that most people do bad things. I say most because some people are just plain fucked up and do bad things because they like doing bad things.
Your average person will do petty bad things to save money.
Your rich person will do bad things to make more money.
Your evil person will do really bad things for easy money.
Examples.
Your average person will download pirated music and movies, not pay for food or other small items if they know they will not be prosecuted for it, and will shortchange anyone that won't make a fuss over it. These are bad things to do because they are stealing. You didn't pay for that album, you didn't pay for that movie, you didn't pay for that food, you didn't pay for that jacket, you didn't do the work that you said you would for that money. If it was cash you were stealing, you probably wouldn't do it.
Your rich person will scheme and scheme to increase profits, no matter what the cost is to others. The mortgage crisis is one of these schemes. They sold houses to people they knew could not afford it in order to sell stocks to foreign investors and bought stocks betting on their failure. The people who bought the houses have poor credit now, the economy is not so hot and almost completely collapsed, and none of these schemers had to pay for what they did.
The whole food industry is another one. America is getting fatter and unhealthier. More shit is put into our food to make it more delicious so we eat more. And more money is spent on advertising than the cost is to make the food that is being eaten. No one is making us eat this food, true. But they damn sure aren't telling us the whole fucking truth either, not about the cost, not about the content, not about profits.
Oil. This one is too easy and far reaching that if you don't know, I don't know what to say. Cars, hybrids, tires, wars, roads. I don't know, just everything about that industry is full of selfish business people who don't give a fuck about anything and only care about the bottom line: money.
Big corporations that lay off their workers to increase profits. They give pay cuts, and give themselves raises. Bad.
Your evil person will do bad things for easy money. Human trafficking is pretty bad. Anyone on the scheming side are evil for sure. Drug dealing. I know the small drug dealers aren't really evil, it may just be a means to an end to some, but the big wealthy ones are definitely evil. Pretty much anyone on the top of a pyramid is probably evil because they had to do things to stay on top. Preying on the naive. Not cool, evil for obvious reasons.
But money does get good things too. Advances in technology. Toys for kids. Medicine for ailments that can't be cured naturally. Food. It's easy to see how money doesn't necessarily equal evil, but people definitely lose morality for this shit. Is it that hard to make money in honest ways? Don't ignore how you're making your money. And how much money do you really need? Do you need a big big house? Do you need a really expensive car? Do you need expensive clothes? Why? So that you can appear to be successful while you are not contributing to society, and actually making it worse? Now I'm not talking about hard working honest people who never harmed anyone, by all means, if you're making money in a very respectable way, buy whatever you want. No, I'm talking about the Evil people in the world that are rich and became rich by doing whatever evil thing it took. And I'm sure every single bad thing they did, they validated it by saying "well if I didn't do it, someone else would."
Jenny
