As just described the vampire and werewolf represent relatively primitive levels of advancement and, far from being terminal never ending conditions, can and should naturally be transcended in the course of natural and spontaneous evolution and growth, if such evolution is not stopped by people unable to imagine anything better, and who, in this failure, desperately desire to drag all the other crabs back down into the barrel.
Wisdom and wealth are not quite antitheses, but their relationship is inevitably difficult, and in the long run a choice must be made.