Indeed. Ironically, I think making a beeline for wealth makes it less likely that you fulfill your potential. You should target public trust, and your own trust

Indeed. Ironically, I think making a beeline for wealth makes it less likely that you fulfill your potential. You should target public trust, and your own trust if you're short on that. Your contribution absolutely deserves to be rewarded by the public's trust which comes in the form of money. However, money is merely a proxy for that trust, and we know you can acquire money by obtaining short-term trust. Even if you later lose the public's trust for your previous work, you may be able to hold onto that money by hiring good lawyers, to say nothing of the relationships you built that may rely upon you not turning out to be a fraud. That said, aside from having confidence in yourself (but not so much that you cannot acknowledge mistakes), money is the best proxy for trust that we have. It's fine to go after it as long as you understand that your relationships with people are more important.