In this world, money will always be the strongest motivator. The vast majority of people the world over, understand money. Money rules societies and societies are run by financial institutions - such as Wall Street, London, and Japan. Societies rise and fall by the rise and fall of stocks and shares around the world. And it is the common man and woman on the streets who feel the effects the most.

When there is a lack of money, then there is a lack of motivation to do anything about it. However, this can work in the opposite way too, in that if there is a lack of money, then people are FORCED to do something about it. Money, is the greatest motivator in this life, because we have placed upon it a power that it really does not deserve. Money is only as powerful as a person or society makes it, and it has an iron grip upon everything we do.

Gambling tempts us to win ever higher amounts of money, as the prize money becomes bigger and bigger. This is one way of tempting the would-be gambler to places such as Las Vegas, or to apply to game shows in the hope of winning millions. Money, used as a motivating force, can never really fail.

This is because money talks. It speaks to us all and we all understand its meaning. No matter what currency it comes in, we understand and worship money. We know that having enough money could solve our financial problems overnight. Yet we also know that money brings with it its own demons.

Too little money makes us poor and separates the ‘haves’ from the ‘have nots’ in a kind of ’financial apartheid’. Those that do not have enough money are separated from the rest of society and ‘frozen’ out. Those that do not have money look upon others that do, with envious eyes. Especially when those same poor witness the greed, of those that have - such as film and sports stars, and the bankers, who have placed the world into another recession.

Why have one car when two will do? Don’t just have acres of garden, but let us have a swimming pool as well. And then multi-millionaire politicians wonder why riots begin? The same politicians who used their greed, and taxpayers money to fund furnishing for their two and three homes.

When there is so much greed around by people who really should know better, then is it any wonder today’s youth look and say, they too ‘want a piece of the pie’. When all we can see around us is the greed of politicians, film stars, and sports stars, as well as the greed of multi-national energy companies who rake in billions off the backs of hard-working people, then problems within society mount. 

The bankers who the taxpaying public had to bail out because they could not do their jobs properly, continue to prosper on their greed. Gaining huge pensions in the long run - that will continue to grow. And throughout it all, the motivating factor for the greed we see around us is money.

Indeed, as the British Prime Minister, David Cameron said, when riots erupted on the streets of the UK, ‘It is a sick society, when people expect something for nothing’. But, no matter how wrong the rioters were, where not multi-millionaire politicians - who really have not got a clue as to how the ‘other half’ of society lives - just as ‘sick’ in spending taxpayers money to furnish their own two three or four mansions? It seems to be a case of ‘do as we say, but not as we do’. And again, throughout it all, the motivating factor - whether people have it or not…is money.