Maybe others experience wealth differently but it made substantially no difference to my day to day happiness (once the newness of the money had worn off) - but working on a project I feel strongly about makes a strong and lasting difference.
Man lives not by bread alone. Only a simple hedonist is going to find contentedness through a pallet of cash.
Money gets you access to resources to MAKE things, that is why R&D takes so much money. You have to pay a lot of people to think and work hard - only if it's your money you can pay them to think and work hard on YOUR idea and YOUR dream.
Money also gets you the ability to influence change, politically or otherwise. Right or wrong that is how it works, and deciding you are better than that and not playing the game won't stop that from being true - all that will mean is that it will be that much harder for you to actually influence.
So no, money is worthless, it's the things you can do with it that will find your contentedness.
How will having more money make it so I can better sit in a room with a few people I like and build stuff?
I mean it's not like being wealthier will make my Netflix have cooler stuff in it.