“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
“Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.”
“Better to be screwed physically than financially.”
“Have you ever wondered why your financial situation is not better even though you make more money now than you did when you were younger?”
“Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.”
“I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?”