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Exactly. Making money is a means to an end.

For those for whom making money is a primary goal, they miss their essential purpose in life.

OK so how do you acquire everything you need in order to achieve your essential purpose, without making money?

Who said anything about not making money?

"means to an end"

The first step is to quantify “everything you need”, and go individually from there.

That’s just a random platitude that everyone will agree with, but has no workable means of achievement in the real world.