To me the answer is No.
If not money, what makes people rich?
A lot of people go to work everyday, working for money and making more money, but fail to become richer.
It's because they really don't have a plan on how to get out of poverty. Everyone's working and working but their salary's gone because of their lifestyle.
Ironically, many only grow deeper in debt.
Again, it's because people have a lifestyle that they cannot afford. It's really funny because it's the regular employees and not the managers that are spending so much money on coffee (Starbucks).
We have all heard stories of lottery winners who are instantly poor again.
This is exactly why there's such a service called wealth management. People who have won the lottery that are from a poor neighborhood will have a poor neighborhood's mindset. They don't think of the future and that their money is limited and is basically nothing in a wider scale. Funny because now that they have the chance to escape poverty, they just upped their lifestyle and thus lose all their money eventually.
It is information, wisdom, knowledge that makes one wealthy.
I'm just gonna cut it here. In order to become rich, you need a business. Sure there are people that have become rich because of their job but it's probably because they are really really smart and good at what they are doing. But for a normal individual, you are going to need business. Money doesn't make a business succeed. If it did then no business should have gone bankrupt. You will need information on how are you going to run the business, how will it operate, where should it operate, etc. You basically need a business plan and information (or data) is needed for it.
Basically, money is just money and without any knowledge on what are you going to do with it, then you're going to lose it unless you hold it until the time that you're actually ready to start making money out of your money. If you just spend and spend, you will eventually lose it all.
