We have them on Hacker News too. They crawl around the #startups channel.
Some people care more about a quick buck than they do about making good things. There's nothing wrong with that, though I'll never quite understand their obsessions.
I'll venture to say there's something wrong with just making the quick buck. Unless you're starving, I don't really see it as a good excuse.
It seems when one's life is in the pursuit for money for its own end and meaning, it's easy chase after things you don't really want in life. In addition, it makes it easier to do careless things to others, stifle innovation, and harm the environment, because you're just optimizing on money.
And in the end, the great businessmen of yesteryear are mostly remembered from how they benefited humanity. Hardly anyone knows or remembers exactly how much Ford and Rockerfeller made off the top of their head.
I have similar sentiments, but I won't call it outright wrong. I just don't spend my time dealing with the money-grabbers. Their lifestyle doesn't appeal to me.
