It has been said that the root of all kinds of evil was money, but that's not actually pinpoint. That is a symptom. The root of evil is laziness, which is an attitude. Why are the elites trying so hard to accumulate wealth? Isn't it so they can sit back and relax at our expense?
Satan can't be blamed for people failing to do what is necessary.
Laziness is certainly a root of evil, but perhaps the deepest root of all is pride.
Pride puts self at the centre, or to make it VCF friendly, at the point of the pyramid. Evolutionary psychology pats you on the back on the way up the greasy pole of success as people clamour for the top spot.
Contrast the "Gospel" of the elites with Jesus. He never got the red carpet treatment...
Philippians 2
6 Who, being in very nature[
a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[
b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
On the subject of fulfillment in life, Jesus's half-brother, James wrote a few words that seem to sum up what ordinary humanity is frequently like, when he asks the question of where wars and fights come from...
James 4
1 Where do wars and fights
come from among you? Do
they not
come from your
desires for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet[
a] you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend
it on your pleasures.
Pretty much sums up the philosophy of the "elites" to me...
