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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everyone is chasing a lavish lifestyle.  Maybe they want to be the CEO of a company leading it to their leadership goals, or maybe run for Congress or the WH.  You need to live on something while unpaid and running for office or vying for a job and maybe your family will only put up with it if you don't disrupt your childrens' lives and education.  Maybe their goal is to feed 100,000 children.  Not every money goal needs to be decadent.[/quote]

I agree, but it's notable that in reading (I think) most of the posts in this thread, you are the first person to say that you (or someone) might want more than $5m in order to accomplish broader career, political, or charitable goals. The vast majority of posts focusing on how $5m is not enough have been focused on the idea that it is an insufficient amount of money to maintain a certain lifestyle. Most people are not running for Congress or founding a major company or trying to address hunger or poverty. People have mostly argued for more money to pay for nice homes, more travel, education/activities/inheritance for kids, etc. [/quote]
There is also an angry narrative that says that all rich people are bad, corrupt, etc.  I've met my share of selfish, immoral and criminal rich people but not everyone is like that.  Rich people have opportunities to do the right and wrong thing just like everyone else, but the impact of their choices may sometimes be broader.  But there are many rich people who struggle and try to do the right thing within their set of values.  All people, whether rich or poor, face choices, incentives and pressures in life.  There are a lot of complications in life and we navigate them trying to avoid the traps that limit our choices and find our paths to happiness.[/quote]

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