Only if you don't have other aspirations in life. My day job is solely to fund my personal projects that I actually enjoy. Not everyone is out to be insanely rich.

If you fairly profit from your direct efforts in a lifelong career as a productive programmer, you will merely become rich, not insanely so. You appear to have constructed a strawman.

Making someone else rich is the objection.

No, perhaps I was too subtle. My point is I don't care about the fact I might be making someone else rich. Life isn't about coming out ahead of everyone else you interact with. Some people simultaneously understand your point, and also don't care about it. Only within your own subjective opinion do you think they must.

Your imagination is lacking.

Having no job or income and having to worry about how to afford food or rent is surely much worse than "just" having a stable job.

Or how about a super stressful job, like the Japanese salarymen who are literally killing themselves?

This view may change as you get older and "unpredictability" starts to mean more negative experiences.

Perhaps his aspirations had nothing to do with his day job?

Wait you mean life isn't a video game where my position in a company completely defines me as a person, and if I don't destroy all my colleagues (read: competitors)with cruelty and cunning schemes I still have value?