The Measurers And The Measured

I have never understood 'self made millionaires',
they seem like enslaved slave owners to me,
unable to see the binds they put others in
for being blind to their own bondage to money/power.
I understand well enough how when they get rich
their wealth means they are to be deferred to and obeyed.
There is the double trap there, where for some
their wealth is an aphrodisiac that blinds them to their vanity
and still leaves them attractive to others.  
But who does the physical work that founds their fortune
without real future gains to themselves for their efforts?
Who wrote the laws which they employ lawyers to warp
for their gain and comfort?
What do their wives think when for most of their lives
these men choose to be willfully absent from their marriage,
as if they were polygamously married to their jobs?
Who likes them without being paid to be in their company?

I am left thinking is that the love of money is a subsidiary
effect of patriarchy and it makes men lonely aliens in a world
they constantly busy, noisily sucking the life out of.
St Paul was right when he wrote
that 'The love of money is the root of all evil'.
What he was meant to infer was that the measure of life
is to be a good neighbour (the 2nd commandment
-Mathew 26-40) and money can be good servant
in this cause, but it makes a very bad bad master.