Your idea on this is totally wrong, not everyone who always think about making money is out to impress others. Some people think of making money for themselves, everyone has a dream and passion, achieving all of this requires money, this is why they lock-in and focus on making money without allowing any form of distraction. With the way the world is going right now, it's enough reason for you to make money without even having the thought of impressing others. You have to make sure that you take care of your family and a lot of things, this are the thoughts that drives most people.
First and foremost is money making for impressing others? I think some people gets this things wrong, money is been made to take care of yourself, you family, everything you think that can make you comfortable in life also to take care of othesr too, expanding your financial status is also what making money is meant for, not for any kind of impress, let's remember that you can't impress anyone, once one start thinking that way then poverty is calling becaue your will want to buy or do things to you don't want just because you want to impress people, I will agree with you that we have dreams individually but it should not be an unrealistic dream, people talk about passion which I love to hear, some peoples passions are something we can't imagine and they keep deceiving themselves all in the name of passion that has no positive impact, I think ones vlision should be how to upgrade his or her financial status in such a way that he can be able to be financially stable in other to afford the essentials of life not having a mindset of impressing people who may not care about it.