Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?!
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one's own greed.
If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.
Money is simply a tool to give you choices.
Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.