To me, the moral of this story is that people should not be too greedy for material things. Instead, they should be content with what they have and what they can afford.
I would connect this to some of the things that have gotten many Americans into financial problems these days. The current economic crisis has its roots in the "housing bubble" which was caused in part by Americans trying to live in houses that were bigger than they could afford. By trying to get bigger and fancier houses than they could really afford, many Americans got themselves into a position where now they can no longer afford to pay their mortgages.
You can see the same thing in cases where people have high-stress lives because both parents in a family are trying to have careers. Often, this happens because people want more material goods than they can afford on one salary. Because of this, they work too hard and their personal and family lives suffer.
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