IMO, it's not the money itself, but how the money was acquired, and what is done with it. For example,

1. By delivering useful products and services or sabotaging competitors, making money by promoting hate or spreading knowledge (HN, take a bow)

2. By actually enriching the consumer or creating addictive/dark patterns or charging usurious interest rates, setting traps, obsoleting products quickly and so on.

3. By pouring profits back into the company, creating opportunities and just giving a fair share to society that pays for the products and services, or fattening up on stock buybacks. (Think AI helping people who lost jobs to AI using AI to get jobs from AI HR agents)

4. Money buys influence, and laws and regulations favor the concentration of wealth over its flow back to society; hence the insane concentration of wealth in static assets, mega-yachts, real estate. Legislative capture.

5. Ultimately conscience and the "golden rule". Beyond a certain amount of wealth, actual happiness is somewhat asymptotic or decreasing, [0] the point being that it all becomes symbolic at some point, and that you'll always have less (fewer of those symbols) than someone else, signifying unhappiness unless you're "the one at the apex".

6. The greatest treasures are arguably "Treasures of the Heart" [1] and call that "the spiritual aspect of life" if you will, but all is eventually lost except the good we do with and for others (The Dennis Ritchies of this world). I prefer not to have an army of bodyguards, though I could use some household and yard help, which I can still afford until those billionaires sack Social Security for an even lower tax rate. (than zero?)

[0] Elon Musk: "I'm not happy"

Elon Musk gave ordinary people access to the biggest hate machine (and nufidier) in human history.

[1] Nichiren

Nichiren gave ordinary people access to the treasures of the Lotus Sutra, which opens the door to the innate Buddhahood/divinity in each person, and therefore, to happiness.

The fact that SCOTUS fallaciously equated money with speech, billionaires have an outsized advantage in influencing the political landscape.