I am not sure if I totally understand the first part of your reply there, but I'm assuming it relates to influence and having someone poorer than you jailed in a corrupt system. If you're saying money can influence, absolutely, of course it can. If you're alpha, which god damn I hate using that word, you do not allow yourself to be influenced. You putting me in jail in said situation doesn't make me any less alpha - just reduces my freedom. You can also make 400M a year and be shot by a lowly thug on the streets and lose all your freedom (and life for that matter). Irrelevant.
And if I can implement my dreams with 5M, versus you implementing yours at 100M, what makes that wrong? Everyone's definition of big dreams is not the same. That's what makes life great, we all have opinions and different viewpoints. If you're just wanting 100M because you can say 5M is nothing, or you can jail someone, or other wild hypotheticals, you're chasing it for status, bud.
I'm secure now and can tell anyone to fuck off, but I base that on my ideals, what I hold true to myself, and not what society wants me to be or in my current situation.
Maybe I'm an old soul though, and again, this is just my opinion.