I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling but I'll settle for second best.
In fact corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents so limiting that money as Congress did in the campaign finance law may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.