Definitely! You need money for clothes, food, water, heating and a roof over your head and the occasional medical bill. EVERYTHING else is a luxury.

Well, if you're simple like Forest, sure you'd see things that way. However, you need more money than you need to just live on - * To be able to move from a one room apartment into a house * To decorate the house so it pleases you. * For improvements and repairs (maintenance) to the house. * To replace the junker of a car with a nicer, newer car. * To buy the maintenance products to keep the car looking clean and new and not rust away on you. * To go out to dinner on occasion. * To pay for a baby's delivery. * To pay for a babies diapers, food, and clothing. * To buy Christmas and Birthday presents. * To have protection in case of losing your job, or a major catastrophy occuring. * To be able to eat well, rather than eating a subsistance diet of cheap, low-quality food. * To be able to continue to live as close to the life you've grown accustomed to and provide for those you love for as long as you'll need to once you retire and can no longer produce income. * To pursue personal hobbies, self improvement seminars and courses, or an occasional class. * To be able to live the better quality life that you deserve, regardless of what others who would rather you not do better than them think, simply because you know you deserve a better life. * Etc. Forest Gump had a simple mind. He wasn't able to plan and life just kinda happened to him. Yet he had many successes and Gump Shrimping was a cash cow, so he ended up with a surplus of money, himself. If you consider the list, you'll see that none of it is only "just to live", and yet none of it is for the purpose of "showing off to anyone else" either. It is looking ahead to improve ones station in life, to provide for ones family, to meet ones financial obligations which may not be known in advance, and to be able to forestall disaster should it come.

Makes sense

Yes, I agree with that statement.