There's a scene in the Digha Nikaya where the Buddha says there's nothing particularly wrong with having a lot of money, as long as you spend it. The more lavis

There's a scene in the Digha Nikaya where the Buddha says there's nothing particularly wrong with having a lot of money, as long as you spend it. The more lavishly, the better. If you spend it, that circulates the wealth and creates jobs. Potentially exciting jobs doing fun, fulfilling things that wouldn't be possible any other way. A couple thousand years ago that was making beautiful things, but making rockets is perhaps not so different? By contrast, if you just hoard it, Warren Buffett style, none of that wealth is doing anybody any good.