I have no interest in power. I want wealth so that I can stop stressing out over money.

Everyone give your money to me so I become rich so I can achieve my goals.

1. Live in bunker in woods away from people

2. Make LeVar Burton president

And some want wealth to do fun things, help people and not have financial worries.

I am poor and chose the latter. Own a small cheap cottage on the edge of a tiny rural village at the arse end of Australia (Tasmania) live simply and have a like minded parter. I quit work at 35 and am now 59, don't get any goverment pensions etc have a small investment portfolio of shares i purchased back in the 1990s from working and live off the dividends.

I don't want to be rich, as to even try to do so I'd have to compromise all of my morals to get there. I'm rich enough. I quit paid work as it wasnt for me. My only regret in life was not quitting work earlier, thats time I cant get back.

Most people want wealth because it means they won't need to think at how to survive the next month.

I want wealth so I can quit my day job and focus on creating art

These are both forms of power.

I want wealth so I don't have an existential crisis every time I need to get my brakes done. Or my teeth prosthetics needs repair

I want wealth because I lack self love and wish I had enough money to buy it

I want wealth so i can quit this fucking joke of a job and have my own business.

Some people want wealth to expand their stamp collection.

I want wealth for ease of mind. No more worries about food, shelter, and health for me and my family.

I want wealth to become Batman.

I want wealth so I can build a better world for everyone else to live in, like building metro lines and libraries all over my city, affordable, mixed-use housing, and funding clean energy projects. We are not the same

I kinda don't fit in both. I need reasonable steady income/wealth (as soon as it covers food, a car, an apartment, gym, some clothes, ... for me and some relatives) so I can do other stuff.

This will be centered around volunteering in different ways (open source, research, ...) without fearing going homeless the moment I disagree with someone.

Given my low cost geo location, I am closer to this than ever.

I have no problem going to work every day if I know I can pay my bills and have some fun during my off time.

The last 12 months has been the first time in 20 years that I felt like I wasn't able to accomplish that, and it's getting worse.

And I'm content spending most of my weekends at home doing nothing, so I don't feel like that's too much to ask.

And some people (named Peter Thiel) want both!