Fortunately there is also other things in the life, beside material values. Joy, friends, love we can not buy such things. It is good, otherwise we would only gather money. I believe ingenously that mental values are much more important than material values. But other story is, how to use this knowledge. For example I would like to be a millionaire. I can not say that money is unimportant for me. ,,Money is for him the most important thing" - it is an belittling phrase. It does not apply to me, at least I hope that. But for who it applies? There are many people in the world, whose meaning of life is to gather money. They commit to the career and business. Maybe they do not have children and family, it will just waist time and energy. Opposite people could wonder, what life is that, but thanks to such business- sharks the world evolves. It is everyones free choice to set money to the first place in his life. I have no right to say what
element of malicious criticism and judgment of others, and so it also strengthens the ego through the implied but imagined moral superiority that is there whenever you apply a negative judgment to anyone. If someone has more, knows more, or can do more than I, the ego feels threatened because the feeling of “less” diminishes its imagined sense of self relative to the other. It may then try to restore itself by somehow diminishing, criticizing, or belittling the value of the other person's possessions, knowledge, or abilities. Or the ego may shift its strategy, and instead of competing with the other person, it will enhance itself by association with that person, if he or she is important in the eyes of others. EGO AND FAME The well-known phenomenon of “name dropping,” the casual mention of who you know, is part of the ego's strategy of gaining a superior identity