Money

Money to me has never been really important, but more of a welcome nicety. It's good, when I have it, but not awful when there's not as much. Too many people, I think, are warped into believing that in order to be successful, you must be gratuitously rich.
Although money certainly makes some aspects of life easier, the lack of it and sacrifices some people have to make because of the lack of money makes them stronger individuals that are able to overcome hardship. Some people that either have always had money or have accumulated money through their good business fortune or luck are always wanting more. Greed is certainly the largest by-product of money- everybody always wants more. I think this strains a lot of people's relationships with each other, especially maritally speaking. One (or both) memebers in a relationship are more focused on earning money than they are interested in each other.
The lack of money, though, however much we morally defend it as being okay, governments, businesses, and people ultimately suffer in one way or another because somebody always owes so-and-so however much money, and it just creates a big chaotic system we call the economy, which if you haven't been living under a rock, is suffering. So the lack of money is surely a problem that impacts virtually every person on the planet. Even so, I don't think we would solve the whole "lack of money problem" by not having a lack of money. The lack of money is natural. If everybody had enough money, there wouldn't be a need for it. Simple as that.