[j2kun]

Being a graduate student who is paid just under the living wage for the city I live in, I probably have less money than you. In fact, I probably have less money than 60 percent of the population.

I am not more likely than you to be assaulted, killed, or go hungry. Here is a more extreme example to show how misguided your statement is: a millionaire has less money than a billionaire, but that does not imply the millionaire is more likely to deal with being assaulted or killed or going hungry either.

You should really go reevaluate what you think you know about finance and how money affects life. Go read some papers about how money changes quality of life, and you'll see that above a certain (relatively small) threshold, more money doesn't make much of a difference. There is certainly no "aggressive" punishment for deciding to have a lucrative career in, say, medicine, as opposed to having a more lucrative career in finance.