Serving God and mammon (money)

I don't know why I'm thinking about money and its importance (or lack of it) today, but I am.
I am glad that money isn't something that concerns me much. I realize that comfort comes from a place of having enough that I don't really need to worry. 
We are not rich by any means, but we have enough. Maybe that is considered rich by many that do need to worry about having enough.

I think that reading about the cuts in the proposed budget package in Congress may have something to do with my thoughts this morning. So many of the cuts are really going to hurt a lot of people and it appears that the help the budget provides will be for a few that don't really need help.

How much money is enough?

I know that differs greatly from person to person, but is there a base of comfortably surviving that can serve as enough and everything else is excess of different levels?
Do different people deserve different levels of comfort?

I think it is fair that some live better than others when the difference is what they have put into improving their situation. I don't think that improving one person's situation should be the cause of another person's pain or in any way make it more difficult for somebody else.
I am afraid that so much of our society is structured by the people with wealth and power to accumulate more wealth and power by restricting what others can get.
I think that we have far too many divisions within humanity that we are competing with one another rather than cooperating with each other.
Maybe it isn't a matter of serving God or money as much as it is a matter of serving self or community.

I don't think our members of Congress give much thought to the community of the country. They seem to be focused on a much smaller community of people that can afford to buy their influence and votes. There seems to be a bit of buyer's remorse within the US electorate.

Admittedly, I am not very active in my community. I have become a very non-productive member of society with my sole contribution being that of a consumer and tax payer. On any given day, I give practically nothing to the world around me. 
I read things that others have written and write things that only a few might read.
I tend to my yard and flowers and only my neighbors get to see them unless I post a picture.
I provide more food and shelter to birds and butterflies than I do for my fellow humans.

Maybe there are too many people like me that exist without doing anything to make our section of the world a better place; too many people content to live without actively contributing to society.
Maybe it isn't a matter of serving God or money, or serving self or community.
Maybe it's a matter of too many of us not serving at all. 

Hmmm...
I am going to have to do some self evaluation.
Whom do I serve?
What if I am not serving anyone?

John