The triad of money, purpose and respect is worth keeping in mind if you are reevaluating where you currently work, asking if you should stay: do you get paid enough to not think about money, have purpose and respect?

Elsewhere (not sure) I've read, suggests adding the luxuries of autonomy and mastery to the list.

I would recommend this blog post about this very subject: https://www.yegor256.com/2017/09/19/what-motivates-me.html (to show the other side of the story, from the PoV of a programmer)

being a software engineer when i see all those "motivate engineering teams" i somehow feel like a cattle seeing a shepherd's herding manual

I'm waiting for the "motivate executives" book. It'll probably be a paragraph which starts with "give them more money".