Money, power , prestige - they all make you cunning. seek the pleasure and you will lose your innocence, and to lose your innocence is to lose all.
Jesus says: Be like a small child, only then can you enter the kingdom of God. And he is right. But the pleasure seeker cannot be innocent as a child. He has to be very clever, very cunning, very political; only can he succeed in the cutthroat competition that exists all around. Everybody is at everybody else's throat, you are not living among friends. The world cannot be friendly unless we drop this idea of competitiveness.

But from the very beginning we start corrupting every child with this poison of competitiveness. By the time he comes out of the university he will be completely poisoned. We have hypnotized him with the idea that he has to fight with others, that life is a survival of the fittest. Then life can never be a celebration.

Excerpts from Osho.