Yes

Getting money activates the reward process in the brain.

Everyone handles that differently based on their life experience and current situation.

If you’re asking If money drives the moral compass that’s highly individual.

Both. There is a study by Armin Falk and Nora Szech (2013) that experimentally shows that markets can erode moral behavior, as participants were more likely to not save a mouse’s life for money in market settings. This generally extends to the erosion of morality for monetary gain in market systems. Additionally, psychological research indicates that wealthy, successful individuals often score higher on traits associated with the “dark triad” of personality, i.e. narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, which supports the idea that selection plays a role as well.

This tension is what causes the Bible to be suspicious of wealth

Neither. Just different beliefs, values, and choices.

Being questionable is a property of being human.

I say neither. Plenty of decent people find ways to make good money without selling themselves to the devil. Personal injury lawyers are a great example, they are real-life Robin Hoods.

A lot of people have a limit where the effort of getting more money isn’t worth it. People without that limit keep trying to acquire money and power.

The more money I get, the more I want to give it away, so I’m going to guess the latter.

A consequence free environment (boatloads of money) simply let’s people be who they are. Unfortunately bad people come into money more often.

I think it’s enough of a mix of both to where it doesn’t really matter at the end which was the cause and which was the effect. I feel similarly about the vague concept of power, to which money is a manifestation of.

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Yes.

“money is the root of all evil & poverty is the fruit of all goodness”