Certainly money was a part of his life, but I feel like that's just one way he was rationalizing his frustrations. I mean, would not having money have made him think "ok, well no girls like me, but it must be because I don't have money, so I'll go be super successful and get them." It would probably have made him think "girls only care about money, I can never get one, I hate rich, successful people, and materialistic girls." It seems like the main issue was a lack of ability to connect to people, and the frustration that would obviously come of it. There would always have been a rationalization. He would always have wanted more as a solution to difficulties, which in his inability to connect, seemed to be the fault of everyone else. I just don't think money pretty much ever makes a difference - access to help, willingness to get help, and a sense of perspective do. You can lack those things or possess them with or without money depending on the situation.
And in regard to other posts, there is just nothing based on the info we have that would have resulted in him being institutionalized. I don't think people realize how many people we would have to institutionalize if the qualification was "strange".
In the old institutions, you had all the mentally retarded or otherwise disabled people locked up when they did not need to be in many cases, but functional weird people may not have been until they became violent. Oftentimes family members could get people like that committed, but that's not a system I want to return to - not the exact same situation, but all I can think of is Rosemary Kennedy. Being weird or disobedient or off is not grounds for losing all control. I do think one issue today is that unlike in the past, functional but very strange people cannot just join the family business and quickly marry a local girl who needed a husband. There's no structure - it's obvious they don't fit in, and little prospect of a normal relationship. I think that affects young people more than anything today, in terms of the behaviors people complain about. Over the last few decades the "path" American society had set up and the expectations that come along with it have largely evaporated, with good and bad consequences.
Dealing with violent people, mentally ill or not, is part of living in a society. I do not believe it can be solved. Violence is part of human nature that modern society attempts to break people of, but it can't work for everybody.
