Wealth & Money Quote by Michael Jackson

He’s not arguing a case so much as staging a moral autopsy: how does a “sweet child” become the kind of person who does harm? Jackson’s answer is a chain of coercion, with parents as the first link. “Because parents have power over children” is blunt, almost courtroom plain, and that simplicity matters. It frames the child not as a villain-in-training but as a captive audience, trained to equate obedience with survival. The subtext is familiar in show business, where childhood is a commodity and family becomes management.

Then he pivots to a biblical register: “the love of money is the root of all evil.” It’s a loaded phrase that does two things at once. It gives his critique moral authority, and it relocates blame from individual depravity to a system of incentives: adults, industries, even families warped by profit. Jackson isn’t just condemning greed; he’s describing how money creates permission structures where exploitation can be rationalized as “opportunity.”

The emotional engine is the repeated insistence on essence: “this isn’t him. This is not him.” That doubling reads like denial, but it’s also a plea for a different story about accountability-one that separates the person from the forces that shaped them. Coming from Jackson, a celebrity whose own childhood was famously disciplined into performance, it lands as self-protective and confessional at the same time. He’s defending the idea of innocence while admitting how easily it can be purchased, directed, and rewritten by adults who call it love.