I think the mistake comes from thinking either one is desirable: poverty or money. Poverty is not noble because you spend all that time in misery obsessing about where your next meal comes from. Riches aren't noble because you end up obsessing about how to impress someone completely unworthy of being impressed with the meal you're going to invite them to. Money is not evil in itself, just like the meals aren't evil in themselves. The evil is in caring about the wrong things. Not being able to respect someone else because you're hungry and crabby and working all the time, or not being able to respect someone else because you're so busy and full of yourself and deluded about what's important.
So the key is to be happy where you are. Easy for the rich person to say!
Voila the Tree's two cents' worth.
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