Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
The wit here isn't simply deflating sentimentality—it's exposing how we perform virtue while acting on our actual values. Mason catches us in the gap between what we profess and what we pursue, and rather than sermonizing, he lets us laugh at the contradiction instead of feeling condemned by it. A person might genuinely believe relationships matter most, yet spend their evening scrolling job postings instead of calling an old friend, and Mason's joke grants that messiness a strange dignity. He's not saying love is false or money is good; he's saying that pretending these competing pulls don't exist is more dishonest than simply admitting what we really want.