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Questionable, because chazal say that money is a safe depost from Hashem with which to do HIS will not our own. We are charged with using our money to serve him, b’chol meodecha, in all of your resources. Our lives are meant to be spent this way.
It’s not “ours” to do whatever we want with as long as it’s not an open issur in shulchan aruch.
Might do you well to learn about what chibut hakever is in the sifrei mussar.
Marbeh basar mabeh rima. More flesh, the more worms. Chazal tell us to curtail our desires all the time, but also not to be an ascetic. The rambams “golden path” applies here, to not be a glutton or to live for this world, but also not to harm the body and nefesh with harsh asceticism. The mesilas yeshorim writes that we are to use olam hazeh as an aid to perform mitzvos; chazal say one is praiseworthy if he eats a fatty steak in order to learn better. But if he eats it for no reason other than to satisfy his desires…
There is a mitzvah of kedoshim tehiu, you shall be holy, which means to sanctify one’s self with that which is permitted.