Indeed for people money is everything, that's why there is a saying that time is money. From here we learn how important money is for human life. although money can be misleading and become the root of evil but the printing of money in this world is needed as the exchange value of something.
The saying time is money doesn't mean money is everything, a saying like that has a universal meaning in my opinion. Time is money in my opinion is the importance we value time. Sometimes we forget precious time and put more importance on something that can be said to be not very meaningful. Because if money is everything then in life there will be no such thing as morals, norms and so on. Everyone will definitely do everything possible in various ways, including those who violate applicable regulations. We should not misinterpret this because it may lead us astray.
Excess and misuse of everything is bad in life ,similarly money used and earned in range is normal and when things go out of control like greed and wish to earn lots and lots of money will deviate you from right path. Money can be or cannot be a motivation in someone's life depending upon their priorities, priorities matters alot when money is concerned, some people are happy and satisfied with normal amount of money the prefer morals but some are never satisfied so that's the point.