9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
This turns out not to be entirely the case, according to Buddhism, because suffering also comes from attachment to greed for sex, power, and more, as well as from hatreds of all kinds, and the full range of delusions.
But it is close enough to get started with.
For example, see Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, which I wrote about for Readers and Book Lovers last Saturday, and will again in a week. It is about a decades-long shared delusion among economists and governments, of Friedmanite Market Fundamentalism, leading to economic and military coups in dozens of countries, from Chile to Israel. They reached their peak in the W administration with the Iraq War and the Hurricane Katrina disaster, which reduced New Orleans to the state of Baghdad in a matter of days. Fortunately, since then they have been receding fairly rapidly in many countries around the world, including in Bidenomics.