Does Money Define Success Or Happiness

Many lives have been ruined for the maddest race known to us: does money define success or happiness? Why has greed motivated and fooled the smartest people around? Luxury comes from wealth, not sacrifice; keeping it up is a must and should one lose the privilege to look good and be admired will raise brows and open the eyes to unexpected demise, being deprived of comfortable things is obstruse! Mark belonged to a corporate group that generated billions selling stocks and bitcoins. then came the pandemic and broke it apart; he cried a lot and decided to slash his veins: it cost his life, he chose darkness over light! Everybody has gone their way, they have trashed his memory; his granite grave has no candles, no flowers: revenge was done to bring justice to buyers who trusted someone who handled shady deals! Does money define success or happiness? Can one get both by practicing deceit and be called elite? None of these I have found yet, only stones that impede glamour to enter the delusional senses: am I brave enough to fend off tears?