Paradox: The better your connections are, the less important it is to have money.
Also: Having more money won't improve your personal network. You can be rich and lonely.
A rich person will not work for money. And I'm not entirely convinced that a poor person should either. There is very little in life that is inaccessible to you if you can work with other people.
You can't eat money, live in money, or have sex with money. It's just paper and numbers. Money isn't value. What you get in return is the real value. And very often, it's possible to trade favours to get what you need.