Is the world only driven by money?

Sometimes I think to myself what a crappy world we live in. Everything is motivated by money. The majority of people only work because of money. Whatever happened to being the best at what you can be and helping others? Don't people realise if you chase money you become enslaved by it? How many times have you heard "but the pay is good that's why I'm working at XYZ"?

Here's a quote from a book I read some time ago

"I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve.
Always strive to be the best in your field... Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you."

People don't realise the more you chase money the more it runs away from you. I secretly find it pathetic when people get happy over a few thousand dollar pay raise per year, big whoop. Don't go to work because you have to, go to work because you want to make the world a better place for people. Hey I like doing what I do, that's why to me there's no separation. My work is me, I like doing what I do. You have to be passionate about what you're doing otherwise it will only be a job to you, which makes it a chore and you will never be good at it. All big companies who started from scratch, I seriously doubt that money was their #1 priority.

If you're not passionate about what you're doing, quit, it's not worth it. If you do something you're passionate about, you will only get better at what you're doing, as compared to what your previous job was.

Since you're improving all the time, let's assume that to be velocity v. V only increases all the time, since you're doing what you're passionate about. And when you differentiate velocity you get acceleration, A. Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. Basically this means that you will improve all the time and you will end up differentiating yourself a lot quicker and faster from your peers who are doing dull mundane jobs. You will be improving all the time. It's physics in the real world applied to yourself. Last year I made more than my friends who work full time in terms of finances. Is it because I'm better than them? No, it's because I am doing what I'm passionate about. Remember everyone has to start from somewhere. I started from zero (and in many ways, I'm still starting from zero!), I made my software free because I wanted to help others. If no one had suggested to me to sell my software, I probably never would have.

Don't work for the money, work to be the best in whatever you're passionate about and make that your life, not your job.