It's ok to work hard for money as long as you know where you are going. My wife is indeed working very hard because she is planning to retire soon and do some other things which she likes regardless whether she would earn money or not. But to achieve this she needs to vouchsafe first her financial status.
Things start to become pathological when money is viewed as end in itself. This is indeed a problem. The reason being is that money is numerically quantifiable and as you know number is simply infinite. Hence when someone aims for a certain amount, once he reaches it, he would aim for more and so fort and so on. It would not just simply stop. And this is very dangerous because it could lead to crime specially when the circumstance seems to be conducive, e.g. World leaders who were involved in huge scale of corruption.
On the other hand if you are aiming for a certain amount in relation to a certain goal (an end) e.g. buying a car or a house, then once you reach your goal you don't strive for more, or you create another project then set your goal again, but not just aiming for money - for nothing.
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