In life, people aspire to many things, but often do quite different things.

Many engineers on this site spend their lives developing machines to hook young adults on toxic social networks for that wealth

More than one thing can be bad

This comment doesn't deserve the downvotes.

The surgeon general recently suggested that children should stay off of social media because it's bad for their psychological development: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/surgeon-general-kids-under...

There's growing evidence that social media is also bad for teenagers. Rates of teenage depression and suicidality have increased in recent years, and there is a direct correlation to social media use.

Cigarette companies are viewed as evil because they peddled addictive, cancer-causing products to kids. Our industry is peddling a different type of poison, and I suspect we'll have a similar legacy.

Here on HN, it seems to many people, income and wealth are the primary determinants of satisfaction.

If you think HN is compensation-focused, you should head over to TeamBlind.com. That place is "Total Comp uber alles."

Whatever it is that you consider "the most important thing" is probably enabled or significantly enhanced by wealth. Money is just a resource.

Often I've found that the people who think money isn't important think nothing is important.

Sure but the number of people on here who seem to think if you don’t have FU money you might as well be living in poverty is a bit over the top.