Can a person lead an 'enriched' life whilst being materially relatively not well-off, and likewise could the reverse be sometimes true? One 'freeranger' couple , for instance, who would definitely come under the official 'poor' classification, would nevertheless consider they lead 'rich' lives.
One of the potential difficulties with a strong financial focus could be its 'narrowing' effect, limiting the scope and values of those such as freerangers' who might well want to live 'multi-dimensional lives, rating ,for instance, areas such as community, environment, relationships and personal satisfaction/fulfillment to be important. It may be useful in a strongly-geared money culture, to take measures to limit its potentially (all?) powerful effects and achieve a necessary and satisfactory multi-dimensional 'life balance'.
