The Documentary That Criticized Greed and Materialism

The Documentary That Criticized Greed and Materialism

There was a documentary made in the 2000s or 2010s that talked about how materialism does not satisfy. The documentary was made by a journalist who described that making money our everything results in unhappiness. The documentary was made in the 2000s, yet I can not recall the name of the documentary (the documentary described the life of a journalist who worked and also raised her family and also described Warren Buffett's work being the administrator of an investment banking company.) The documentary described how worshiping money does not lead to happiness.

The journalist described through different individuals lives how money is only a tool and not the most important thing in life. Money is meant to be administrated for good use instead of worshiped and misused. The documentary describes the reality of how once individuals have their basic necessities met, money does not actually improve happiness. There are other things that actually do improve happiness like practicing genuine empathy, studying and reading, writing, self-improvement, singing, learning languages, exercising, and keeping fidelity to GOD Almighty. 

The documentary described a journalist who made about average income and described that money was not the source of happiness. She also described the life of wealthy individuals who prioritized money. The documentary described that the worship of money leads to coveting and not to happiness. The documentary describes that money is just a tool that can be used to buy necessities and that can be administrated for good instead of misused and worshiped.

There are multiple sources from Psychiatrists to Psychologists that have stated that money is not meant to be worshiped because it leads to unhappiness and coveting. To place all the emphasis on paper money that can stagflate and also decrease in value is not wise. We instead choose GOD Almighty who allows us to persevere with everything that we need. We may not have specific things because they are not needed to persevere in the path of eternal salvation. The documentary was an eye opener concerning how accumulating stagflated currency does not satisfy. This is because we are created for greater things than the worship of stagflated currency. I saw the documentary in college or after college and understood that money is not everything despite post-modernism and socialism wanting individuals to worship money. The reason socialism wants individuals to worship money is so that they become bitter when they compare themselves to others based on how other people may have more money. (The idolatrous millionaire covets the person with 2 millions and so on and so forth.) That is the point of money worship or idolatry. Instead, we decide to worship GOD Almighty because we do not compare ourselves based on inanimate material perishable items nor stagflated currency (Venezuela's currency is not worth much and that can happen in any country especially under socialism.) The snake wants individuals to covet, and they can only covet when they compare themselves to others. Instead of comparing ourselves based on stagflated currency, we have gratitude for having everything that we need to persevere to Shabbath Millennium. We learn that instead we have authenticity and uniqueness instead of practicing envy and coveting based on paper money (that is not even anchored to diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, bronze, emeralds, rubys, or jewelry). A book that I read, the Reckoning by Jacob Soll, stated that the banking system was basically created on IOUs or paper notes that were receipts. There was no platinum, gold, silver, or bronze backing money. Instead there were IOUs and that became paper money. (That is why Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson opposed the First and Second Bank of the US and were disdained by idolators.) Once we realize that natural resources are more important than monetary paper notes, we begin to understand the beauty of GOD Almighty's creation and how the earth provides basic necessities that are more precious than greed and monetary IOUs. (However if idolators slander, commit adultery, practice homosexuality, murder, steal, and covet, the earth does not produce needed necessities. The climate change false argument was made by idolators to obfuscate the truth and try to prevent the preaching of repentance of sin. The practice of homosexuality (LGBT) and grave sin are the reason for the not so good times.) We learn that greed and coveting are from the snake and describes the non-compete mafia's mentality of not wanting others to improve and get better based on merit and competition such as in sports, jobs, and education (60 years after Civil Rights Movement). We have seen this with covid experimental "vaccines" developed in haste and that cause blood clots (44 years after the 1976 flu "vaccines" of unknown strain that led to adverse health problems and sudden death to many individuals who took the "vaccine" made in haste). We can persevere knowing that these are not the best of times when non-compete mentality is actually celebrated by idolators instead of repudiated. Instead we can acknowledge that we can ignore the lies and choose to keep improving preaching and writing truth. (We can persevere worshiping GOD Almighty despite the not so good times that idolatry and sycophants have caused.)