you talk about material goods, not about money. money is just means to get to desired material goods. means of transaction.
these words of wisdom about how people spend to much time worrying about money gets ridiculous, if you understand, how nobody even knows WHAT money really is, why people invented and used it and how noone ever even cares. We should spend much more time worrying about money, but not about getting cash or having a car, but about the core function and history of money. now that would be something. and that woould be ENLIGHTENING and emPOWERing.
From where I am sitting, money is merely "a temporary store of value" that makes it possible for me to trade the apples from my trees when they are ready for someone's help painting my house... *when I need my house painted."
For that matter, money can be gold, cowrie shells, walnuts or something else... as long as a sufficient group of people agree that it's the basis for trading. When I was a kid, we lived in Kenya for a while, where some tribal trade was still done in cowries, and in Murano glass "trade beads." That was also "money," at least to those doing the trading.
I used to be far more "obsessed" with money-- as a "thing;" as a "number" when I was in my 20's and somewhat 30's. Now-- at 57-- there's not much I "need" nor really much I feel compelled to "prove" to anyone.