If you don't take the money, they can't tell you what to do

"No ever moves to a crappier apartment by choice, no one ever wants to go back to not being someone. "

No one? Ever? I've done both, more than once. I know multiple people who have. You already are someone; having all the trappings ( in an unsustainable way ) is of questionable value at best.

I believe his point was made more elegantly in "Lawrence of Arabia" - "the servant is the one who takes the money."

Try to look past the typos, they are plenty and quite annoying.