First of all, thank you for your input and your long comment.
I agree with your point of view. Money is just a piece of paper. Money doesn't HAVE to change you. It's totally up to you what you do with it, if you can keep control over your life and how you act.
What you wrote is all very logical in theory and like I said, I agree with that.
But sadly, my life experience has taught me that the theory doesn't always apply in real life.
Most people did NOT understand the principle of money like you and me did. They let money take control, and they don't have themselves and their actions under control. they value far too much.
They sell their soul and let money manipulate them.
Whoever receives a large amount of money and DOESN'T change has understood the principle of money. like you said, it's just a piece of paper and nothing more. it shouldn't define you.
Thank you for your input, great comment.
@sirwinchester - "What you wrote is all very logical in theory." - in theory - sounds like it can't be a reality. I do believe it CAN, that's why I wrote that book of a comment :D (sorry it flooded out).
I think it's mostly because of how we are oriented, no school teaches financial management, there's a course you could take business management but you'd still have to learn further in real business life. I guess financial education was intended not to be part of the school curriculum to hold the majority poor and have a poor mind. Rich dad poor Dad and Cahflow sell less than Warcraft or Dota or Pokemon Go. Not having a good financial mindset F..ks people up. It leads to like what you wrote - not being able to control themselves , their relationships, their actions and their financial decisions. All of it sum up, if we would just look at those who are financially well off and try to learn what they are doing that's different from what we are doing - we could perhaps pick up financial wisdom. However, the ideology of "MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL" - which is actually not even what is written in the bible - IT's THE LOVE of money - to the point that you'd worship it, kill for it and become an evil person thinking you could put a sum on any person you feel like putting down whatsoever, this kind of ideology would also keep the people stay poor. I went offline and was thinking .. I wonder if you wrote for a different reason. I guess ... you did. I get you. I just don't resonate with the dominant message of the article and so I put it out there as well. I actually checked your profile after reading this and wondered - how could you have this kind of ideology(I thought you did, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt thinking t'is a bait) and still generate this much upvote. How could your money thermostat be this high - and write this article. Thank you for clearing that out on your reply. I still am not going to upvote it but I'm hitting a follow botton.