Megan: People pursue wealth beyond what their basic needs require only if they see it as a way of achieving high status or prestige. Channen: Not everybody thinks that way. After all, money is the universal medium of exchange. So, if you have enough of it, you can exchange it for whatever other material goods you may need or want even if you are indifferent to what others think of you. Megan and Channen disagree over whether ["it is rational to maximize one's ability to purchase whatever one wants only when the motive for doing so is something other than the desire for prestige", "the motive for pursuing wealth beyond what one's basic needs require is ever anything other than the desire for prestige or high status", "it is irrational to try to achieve high status or prestige in the eyes of one's society", 'people ever pursue wealth beyond what is required for their basic needs']