"I hope everyone actually does take offense to this: When I hear someone say they want to be filthy rich, I hear it as them saying they want to be a boring douche bag."
Straw man. Nobody wants to be a boring douche bag.
I agree with Ramith Seti when he says:"I never want to have to make a bad decision because of money (e.g., staying at a job I don’t love because of car payments).
Isn't that the situation of most people? They stay in bad situations because the rent has to be paid and the kids have to be fed. I just don't want to have to worry about that.
Besides, many of history's great artists were able to achieve what they did because they had patrons. What if daVinci had to work. Look what happened to van Gogh.