Yes, wealth is a matter of perception, Sawzaw. My dachshund, for instance, considered himself wealthy when he discovered several pounds of discarded sparerib bones that a neighbour had irresponsibly dumped outside.

We considered ourselves poverty-stricken after we paid the Vet to deal with the after-effects of same...

The dog briefly considered himself ill and near death from the experience, but he learned nothing from it. A mere few days later he'd have done the same thing again without hesitation. His greed was without limit. This is also the case with most of the people who play the big money game. No amount of it ever seems to be "enough" for them....and that's a temptation which leads to fraud, economic devastation for the many, the collapse of national currencies, and the fighting of many unnecessary wars.

What I'm saying is...people have not progressed much farther in terms of real maturity than has the average dachshund! ;-D