Should modern society be critized for being materialistic?

Phones, cars, tv's, computers. All these expensive objects seem to attract modern society these days and there's only one reason why people seem to be very materialistic about the latest gadgets, luxury. In today's society, luxury and money is all what people care about. For example gambling, stealing and abduction are the three most common crime scenes that happen today. The outcome for all three outcomes are money. When gambling, people hope for money, when robbing a bank or a store, the first thing they ask is for the money stored in the cashier register with a gun put on your head, and lastly abduction, whenever a child or adult is abducted the first thing they ask in return is money. If you haven't noticed yet, society only cares about being rich. Back then things weren't like that, the only things people might of stolen were probably food or water mostly for survival, but today it's not only about survival anymore it's about class. That's why society today is now considered materialistic.