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A concept in economics that doesn't get nearly enough airtime is: the diminishing marginal utility of money. Succinctly: the more units of money you've got, the less adding another such unit does—the added value of any one unit drops very steeply.

Over about $200M (personal orbital tourism? Megayacht? Your own tropical island?) there are no more experiences/luxuries that money can buy you. (And over $50M there are very few—bizjet, luxury mansion.)
mastodo.neoliber.al/@Legit_Spa

neoliberalLegit_Spaghetti 🥥 (@Legit_Spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al)The older I get, the more I realize how much of a failure of imagination all billionaires are. Like, NOBODY needs a billion dollars. Nobody. There is no life circumstance where amassing that kind of wealth is necessary. So that means if someone has that kind of wealth, they are making an active, deliberate choice not to use their excess to create opportunities for others. Of course, big part of the problem is that those idiots think they DESERVE their wealth. Like they didn't just get lucky.
Jacek Wesołowski

@cstross In terms of personal expenses, I could plausibly "consume" $300k for my own flat, and then maybe $30k per year for a comfortable lifestyle.

In terms of ambitions, I always wanted to run my own gamedev studio, so that would be something like $2-3M per year (I prefer to work with smaller games).

Funding stipends for my fellow leftwingers so they can do politics full-time could plausibly eat up about $10M per year, if I wanted to cover the whole country.

And that's about it, I think.

@jzillw @cstross electoral politics? Sure. There are other kinds, and if either you or your friends are actually leftists, you've at least contemplated engaging them. The sky's the limit when it comes to the resources they can use.