You're encouraging a money-grubbing attitude, which is not really a healthy one to have for long-term happiness. Furthermore, if they only see it as a path to

You're encouraging a money-grubbing attitude, which is not really a healthy one to have for long-term happiness. Furthermore, if they only see it as a path to money and not an end in itself to construct great, helpful, beautiful programs, they're gonna burn out real quick. Also, "having money" as a goal is just somehow repulsive. Seemingly all the sleazeballs of the world are oriented like this, and as a result they tend to be very shady and use people as means to getting money rather than actually people, with whom meaningful relationships can be forged.