It's about the money. Because with money one can buy anything. With money, one has power. The power to make more money. To buy more things. To get more power. To make more money.

I'm not totally convinced that, at some higher level, that it's all about money. As has become evident in the past few years, if one has enough power, one may literally print all the money out of thin air.

I'm sure that the small-minded among us, both in the ruling class and the proles, attach some (or all) of their self-worth to the acquisition of money/things/power. But I also believe that, behind the curtain, there are some who seek domination not just of people, but of existence itself. The most obvious goal for them seems to be immortality, but I believe that some yearn to displace the Creator entirely and that they seek to defile and destroy the Creator's works and use the distorted remains for their own maniacal ends. Those that shake their fist at the Creator. It won't end well for them.