Journal #14

14. Please describe your reactions/ideas to the following quote: "He does not possess wealth, it possesses him."

What i interpret the quote to be is that when people become wealthy and obtain power that they start becoming corrupt and only focusing on their wealth. They devote everything to the money they have that they lose sight of other importances in life such as family and become intergrated into their wealth that they no longer possess wealth but rather they are bing possessed by wealth and grow a stong sense of importance and dependency to it that they literally cant live without it because they let themselves be corrupted by their riches. Then when he loses all his money, his investments, and his organization or company he is left in poverty without anything and does not contain any knowledge or experience to start over from scratch after losing what he had before and does not know how to work in today's market because he was intergrated heavily in his wealth in the first place. Because of this he has lost verything and cannot do anything or does not know how to do anything after he lost everything. When people let their riches contorl them they eventually can lose everything they have because of corruption. Some may even committ suicide after losing everything because they may not know how to cope with their loss and do not know how to live after that or what to do next. It is very sad and drastic when this happens but it is partly their own fault for letting their riches control them instead of them controlling their riches.