For example, a person may desire a boat. In order to buy a boat, a person needs money. In order to obtain money, a person needs a form of income.......

And so on as you've stated. This simply shows that the principle of causality is existent in our desires and wants. It seems there is a chain or strings of things that needs to be done or needs to have especially when we are chasing our desires. In this place I tend to understand that our desires can have positive or negative effect. For example, some of the richest people in the world who are into humanitarian services, some of them their wealth was made by cheating, exploitation, taking control or taking away competition. While their wealth seems to be celebrated as a positive thing. The way they made these moneys must have directly had a negative effect on some other person's. I hope this situation portrays a vivid image of what you're trying to say here?

Some influences bring our perceptions closer to reality while others cause are perceptions to diverge further from reality.

So, do you think we should go after tilt towards perceptive influence that should bring us closer to reality? Because I know that sometimes reality can become too real.... In fact, shying away from it or living in denial is how some people tend to cope

Eventually if we bring our perception closer to reality like you've noted at the end, how impactful can we channel on our actions to just rightly affect people even if we're aware that we can just be rich off of their misery, for example?
Because sometimes I've met people who are aware of the freedom they wield, infact these freedom they wield is given to them to realistically change lives but even when they're conscious of this, they end up doing things wrongly and abusing that absolute power to make choice on behalf of others.

This was amazing.... I'm trying to reflect on the possibilities and potentials of freedom and our perception.

@tipu curate