OK Hansel, here you go.
Of course you can have both - pitbullstl seems like he does. But for the purpose of the thread...hard to answer.
I know that money is the fastest route to freedom, the freedom that allows you to have a no limits life, to experience everything you wanted, to be reborn as pure energy absent the constraints of the temporal earth, or most of them anyway. And it is this freedom of the spirit that allows your soul to soar like it cannot when there are temporal constraints.
People worry about life after death when they don't even live life after birth.
In theory, love should do the same - set your soul free to soar to heights beyond what you thought possible, to allow you to change the lives of others. But our current world has constrained our spirits, attemtping to enslave us to the things of this world.
We are killing ourselves for a bag of shitty dreams sold to us by second rate advertisers themselves trying to eke out a shitty living. Break the chains and set yourself free, however you must.
Both money and love can set us free if you are of right mind. pitbullstl is quicker to dismiss money as "not a big deal" because he has already structured his life, more or less, around his family goals and providing for his future...or so it seems. I admire the relationship he has with his family.
I have no such constraints (though he would never call them constraints, I am speaking now from my perspective) so to me the idea of introducing anything which would limit my vision, my mind and my spirit is untenable.
So I answer for myself - the empire must grow. Once the freedom is in place, the money becomes irrelevant, and the vision - a vision of a world with more people who think like I do - a world imprinted with my mind forever, becoems the new focus.
The empire grows. The love waits. But not forever.