Just so.
When I was about 14 I said to mum: “I wish was rich”
Mum: " Money can’t buy love"
Me :" I guess not, but it can buy an awful lot of affection.
As I got a bit older I was a more likely to say “Perhaps, but I’d really like to have to the opportunity to discover that for myself.”
These days I no longer wish for wealth. I have everything I need and most things I want. I worked out years ago that if came into real money I would spend it on my family.
IF I could wish for anything, it would to be 39 again. I worked out that James Bond is 39. That would do me.
PS: I’ve been’ well-to-do ’ and miserable, and I’ve been on the bones of my arse and miserable. If I had my druthers, I’d druther be 'well ‘to-do’—today I seem to be somewhere in between, but no longer miserable or depressed.
To be soppy for a sec: IMO if one loves and feels loved, money (above subsistence) is irrelevant.
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On being a good person: Seems to me that only a good person would ask themselves that question. I’m not entirely convinced there is a completely objective measurement. Surely such an assessment by others is dependent on the values of those doing the assessment.?