thank you for your response. not many have connected their viewpoint to my story so I appreciate you taking the time.
I apologize for not doing so in my post

I think everyone just has strong views they want to get out as soon as they read the title. It's not that people are trying to ignore you.
To comment more directly on your post, as others have said, some financial burdens can become easier of course. I think if you have debt collectors breathing down your neck and you win the lottery, that will greatly improve your quality of life. Is that happiness? I don't know.
I think the ultimate answer to the question changes for every person considering their own circumstances, values, and challenges. For example, if one was born in a wealthy neighborhood where every family has a Ferrari or Lambo, you might feel like a black sheep and even be insulted or looked down upon if you only have a mid-tier BMW. You might always be unhappy until you meet the status quo and have the same as everyone else. I think if you can achieve similar status as your peers, money can enable you to do this and feel more normal and content.
If someone was severely emotionally neglected or abused growing up, they might have a very strong need to overcompensate. They might never feel like they have value unless they have far more than anyone else, and always need to talk about how much better they are. For people with such an immense hunger for acknowledgement, it is hard to know whether that can ever be sated. I will be frank and candid, but in different paradigms, I can identify similar needs such as this that I have (that are not monetary but I think the point stands) and I can at least share my experience in regards to this.
I don't know if you play any video games so I will give a little background, but in "MMOs," social games where there are large worlds to travel across, one of the major mechanics are "mounts." They are simply just vehicles you use to get around and most people are on one at any given time so it turns into a status thing. For simplicity let's say by doing a hard fight 1,000 times, you can get a huge dragon while most other people are on regular small horses.
In my own life, I have been extremely lonely and there was one of these that I metaphorically killed myself for, doing something absurdly masochistic to get one that has an acquisition rate somewhere in the range of 5-15 per 30,000 people. Honestly, I know myself well enough that one of the reasons I probably worked so hard for it is because I wanted to feel like there was some reason to like me, but even with this extremely rare thing I still always feel inadequate and inferior.
I think this translates into things involving money. A lot of it will depend on your upbringing or your life experiences and on the wounds that you have been dealt in your own life.