i think making generalizations to reality is quite dangerous,as some people who gain money can either use that to make a prison for themselves or the money itself can open doors in one respect but shut down doors in another. And some people make lots of money and die of diseases or die of accidents soon after so there are unforseen circumstances in spiritual realms born from choices that each individual makes-its very deep and complex webs of interconnectness and order of things- basing a judgement of money = happiness is superficial and believed by most of the world and it is maybe this major delusion that has taken us away from nature and toward destruction of each other and polluting earth ,for evidence of this we only have to search stories from all over the world.
It is true looking at situations like the ones you described about poor people starving and rich people say in miami which are cases of extremes-(of course you can say that this is the case as one has apparent luxury while another lives in fear and major suffering) .We must not forget that theres always deeper issues going on but sometimes suffering in people can be related to their status,wealth and circumstance.
Looking at things linear is dangerous
i have given this link sent to me by a friend who sent me an email saying this poor guy used money but unconciously created a prison for himself
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...d-at-home.html
I know i havent got the total picture of how things work either but i fair to admit things are never as they seem on the surface of things