This is real. This happens a lot and the longer you watch people the more you will see this.

Money is like fertilizer; it causes growth in whatever is already there. Stinginess and obsession with material things isn’t solved by money, it is aggravated by it. It is strengthened by it.

We could all use a review of virtue ethics and good old Aristotle because it’s easy to forget how close Dickensian villainy is for each of us.