I think obviously making or having money doesn't make you have wealth. Money buys things, but being rich has to do not with buying but with having. We can believe that by working hard or simply winning the lottery you can acquire a lot of money, which may be true! However, that will never guarantee that you will be rich, let alone believe that you have gone up in value. By this I mean, that although money is very important in our society, we cannot always buy with it all the things we want, especially those that have a lot of value, a value outside the monetary, the economic. I have seen many millionaires who are not worth a penny cut in half and poor people whose value is incalculable. Hugs for you, @rok-sivante.