It's not just the money, the yachts, private jets and islands, as wonderful though they are (to some): it's the emotional/intellectual associations that translate into status. That started with Freud and his nephew Bernays used it as a product selling strategy. It's all about what ownership says about you, not the thing-in-itself. What these idiots can't figure out is that the race to own everything makes you a slave to others' opinions and crap standards. It's also a perversion of natural instincts: everything is more enjoyable when others are enjoying them with you. Like who prefers to eat a special meal alone? Can you really enjoy yourself without suspending, for a time at least, the terrible suffering so many are forced to endure? Hoarding, especially to unlimited degree, is usually considered a mental illness. But the world is ordered to encourage this personality type to possess far in excess of anything reasonable. It's a crap system. It must and will stop, one way or another: either rationally or gone berserkers.