Money is an essential thing in our society. It is just like the pillars which support the house. Shylok who in The Merchant of Venice is deprived of his huge wealth for plotting against the life of Antonio. says desperately,

"You take my house when you do take the prop

That both sustain my house: you take my life

 When you do take the means whereby I live".

 Money is a good servant but a bad master
Of course, poverty is a curse. we live by money, we need the money and so we accumulate some money for our parent as well as for future need .but when riches begins to command us when they begin to control us or make us their tools, then such accumulation of wealth leads to vice. If the scarcity of money, on the one hand, makes a person a decoit, then, on the other hand, too much money makes him indulge in illegal and inhuman activities. He collects money by fair means or foul. A worshipper of Plutus becomes a worshipper of Pluto. The lure of money leads him to all sorts of malpractices, such as dishonesty, black marketing, hoarding, exploitation, deception and greed. He becomes a drunkard and thus slips into the bottomless ditch of sins. Wise men have called the lust to possess excessive money a great vice just as Bacon in his essay Of Adversity concludes

"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue".

So we should keep in mind that money is only a means and not an end. It can be a good servant but it is a bad master. Remember money is for us, we are not for money.