Well, everyone has a reason to earn their own money, otherwise, I don't see why I'd make money only to impress others. When you try to oppress other people because you are making money, they will discover that you are making money and will come to you with their financial issues. You showed them that you had money. For me, living a quiet life and earning your own money is the best that a guy can hope for, I don't see the point of earning money and leaving an expensive life for others to notice improvements in my life. It's okay as long as I'm using the money to make my family happy.
Naturally, having money is a must for men. Many of us lose many people we care about because we have given up everything for the sake of earning money, and we are forced to do so because no one else is meant to earn money for us unless we give up other things in order to focus our time and energy to earn it.
I've explained what does it mean to impress other people.
If you saying having a quiet life and earning for your own is the best way, I agree. How long you have been married? remember your wife will demand more and more money every year, you will be in the point where you have doing everything you have and you still can't fulfill your wife's desire.
Let's say you're a software engineer, you earn $100K/year, which is good.
What if your wife now ask you to make $120K/year? in this case you're either reject her offer or doing something to make more money, in this case you can sell course in your social medias. How you can sell course if you don't have enough followers? this is why you need to impress other people by convincing people to buy your course, people impress it by flex their wonderful life by working as a software engineer.
People discover you're making money and come to you? that's the risk of being rich and you have a choice to not give your money.