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$2M a year may mean nothing if you spend all of your money every year. On the other hand, $2M is likely worth $100K for LIFE.
So, it a matter of whether a number in a bank means something to player. For many, the number is irrelevant. They are the ones who are poor by the time they are 50.
So, it a matter of whether a number in a bank means something to player. For many, the number is irrelevant. They are the ones who are poor by the time they are 50.
At that level, it doesn't matter one bit with regard to your lifestyle. Not one iota. 15 million or 17 million? It's a number, little more, and hundreds of thousands become rounding errors.
I live in SoCal in the winter. The place is full of huge income folks - right down the street from me, on the Strand in South Bay (Hermosa/Manhattan), you can't touch a house for under 10m - and many in the 20m+ range (and there's rarely anyone staying in them, either, even though they're not for sale).
10% matters a lot more to someone making under a 100k than it does to someone making 500k...and matters a lot more to someone making 500k than it does to someone making 10m+. The actual dollar figures are a lot higher, sure, but the effect of that difference becomes less important as income increases (basic economics: the diminishing marginal utility of money). Once you get a salary into 7, 8 figures, it's just a number in a bank. You want to buy something? Buy it?
Worrying about affordable health care? Umm, no.
Worrying about retirement? Only if you're incredible stupid with your wealth.