What's Money Got To Do With It?

The draft seems to me to be pretty much all on one note, and that note pretty obvious. Kipp was going someplace less obvious. Your way of reading him turned him into a straw man, as he objects for himself. But in any event, I've never heard anyone who didn't know how much was enough talk about money in terms different from those you use here. Ostensibly, no one wants more money than it takes to be happy. Most of the big money piled up in the world is "fuck you" money, and pretty much no one wants to discuss that motive, most of the time. So everyone's just piling up enough to be happy, and maybe enough to leave a good fortune to the kids.

But that's not the problem. It's easy to say. What's harder is knowing how to shape a life in which you don't need more than enough, and don't go chasing that more. Nothing you have written here explains how you mean to deal with that. A revision might.