On a scale of 1-10 I will say 9 out of every 10 are addicted to making more money even though not everyone attain this height at the end of the day. We live in an every hiking economic society. Prices of commodities keep changing as each day passes by. This has invariably triggered the addiction to more money as the usual earnings is no longer enough to maintain once life style.
Many have been forced into adapting to their current spending ability, others have deviced means to earn more so as to meet up others has choosen the looting method just to survive.
Money is necessity, the basic thing that people needs in life and can't do without. This days it just seems as if all what one needs to do in the everyday life money must be involved. I don't really blame people for getting addicted to money, the truth is that we really need to get this money in our pocket to meet up with things. Before now people were living okay and not bothering so much about money but the inflation in the market has cost everything to be difficult for people which people have no choice to do anything just to double their income.
Focusing on money is very important and which should not be taking for granted because if people don't think on how money can be raised, life will be be extreme difficult.
As much as we want to get rid of any addiction, but I think when it comes to money, there’s no way it’ll be possible. Money is what makes us surviving these days, without money, it’s impossible to meet all our basic necessities. Because of that, we can’t blame the people to rush over money, or to get addicted on earning money just like OP says. What else can we do, money almost turns everything into possibility. And even with people who have no life’s direction, once you offer them money, it will turn like they have a lot of life’s plans all of a sudden, something that only money can do.