My opinion about money is that you do need it in this world to survive or to have money to have a comfortable and decent life for you and your loved ones. But I think chasing happiness with money is where we can draw the line because I don't think they are connected. You can be happy and content without hoarding too much money.
A free thought
I was quite impressed with something I once saw somewhere "life has two big challenges, 1 is that we try to find a certain goal, 2 is to complete that goal."
But basically each person's perception is different, but the journey to completion is the same. With every perspective on life, there will be people who consider it more important than life, but there are people who realize that it is just the things around us to help us complete life's lessons.
So anyone can do whatever they want because arguing about what is right seems unnecessary, and everyone is right with their experience, it's just that the consensus of opinions may not have appeared yet.