You don't need to pay for leisure, there are tonnes of free concerts, free activities(like playing frisbee with strangers in the park), plenty of fountains etc.

You don't need to pay for leisure, there are tonnes of free concerts, free activities(like playing frisbee with strangers in the park), plenty of fountains etc. You /certainly/ don't need to drink booze to live a rich life, I'd be miserable if that were the case. While it is nice to be able to pick your vices and have funds left over, that's just not a realistic way for most people to live their lives. Nobody starts at zero by the way, you start much of the way to the junction point of life enjoyment, I'm not sure how reliable these studies are, but some suggest that enjoyment in relation to wealth follows a law of diminishing returns, with a juncture around $80-100k(I don't remember the exact figures); so ostensibly the goal is not to become the richest man on earth from a homeless orphan, but to gravitate toward that juncture.