Greed is more than prevalent these days it is serious . It gets worse every day . People will deceive for money , cheat for money , and break the law for money . Some people will even kill for the little piece of metal or paper that has been labeled as valuable throughout the world . It is very possible that money is more a curse than it is a gift . Greed can ' t be done away with though . It won ' t be . Even if the currency system that is used around the world today is abolished , and every last bit of socalled ' valuable ' money is rendered valueless , greed would still remain . Currency has had thousands of years to do its work on mankind to corrupt the minds of those in every corner of the earth . It spread like a plague , sparing but a small minority who now have only the choice to watch it devour the morals of those who might be different if greed was never brought into this world . Greed has infected mankind so deeply that it is a nightmare to think of life without money not because of the love of money , but because of the fear of what will replace it . The majority can ' t likely envision it , but the minority knows that without money , greed would only manifest itself in other aspects of their lives . Without something to gain , most people won ' t give , and without money what will there be to gain ? Power , vengeance , sex , drugs , and the like these are things that could replace money now things that would replace money because people can ' t give and not get because for thousands of years they have been infected , and it ' s too late to change . I wrote this when I was 17 and half asleep .