Why does everyone want to become rich?

Why does everyone want to become rich? Is it because rich people can do pretty much any thing they want to, eat anything they want, and even go to space without becoming astronauts? Or is it because they can they can get heart attacks and die a pitiful and pointless death?
On a similar note, why do rich people ever get drunk? Isn’t the whole point of drinking to get drunk forgetting all your troubles(including the fact that if you had really listened to your parents’ advice, you would definitely not ended up this poor)? Since they are already soo rich, what would they want to forget? That they have two million less than yesterday? Or that they could not make the 40 million they could have because they invested in facebook instead of the gold market?
Or, what does Bill Gates do in commode? Is it the same thing everyone else does, or maybe he’s so frikkin’ rich, he can utilize the time some other way than reading magazines or papers? I would not see the point of becoming rich if you had to do the same thing in toilet that everyone else did, even those sqatters in Birgunk who would always ‘squat’ directly in front of our gate when we weren’t looking, all lined up, mother, daughter, daughter-in-law, and the grandchild. Also, to those that do not believe it, like my old friend Bi who had quite a hard time getting over the fact, pretty girls poop too, and the color of their poo is also determined by what they eat.