"I wanna be a billionaire so freaking bad"

Why is it that money has become the focus of life. The standard of living. The ideal image. I find myself wanting to make more money (uh oh extrinsic motivator there) but hopefully its for the right reasons. Life is too short (really?!? such and over used phrase) to sit around and let money be the determining factor to decided whether a life was meaningful or not. The problem that is posed is that money is not "the root of all evil" but the "root of all" meaning just about everything revolves around it. I guess, when life give you money you should make do. I just hope that the "root of all" doesn't become the root of me.