I like the title.

Money without the necessary drive is useless. Massive drive usually, but not always arises out of a combination of 1. intense curiosity/intelligence/creativity, 2. abject suffering, 3. greed/hoarding, 4. desire to dominate others 5. Pure rebelliousness and autonomous free-thinking 6. a desire to improve things for the betterment of all.

What's the end of this story?

It can be a combination of all these things but I do feel that intense suffering is one of the root causes of wanting to possess enormous amounts of power. Or, intense suffering can swing the other way and it can become the fuel to go on a mission to disrupt the forces that caused the original suffering. Vandana Shiva is an example of a rare intelligence that exists for the common good, for the future of nature and life itself.