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How many million US dollars do you feel you could have before it becomes detrimental to your well being? (hexbear.net)
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I heard when you're rich enough, everyone wants you for your money. I read wealth can literally change your brain too. (Not posting the article because it was basically an ad for one of the most expensive mental hospitals in the world, and I didn't finish reading it.)

I'm mostly asking this for your judgements and reasoning of how rich our favorite treat-producing celebrities can be before you personally feel they're no longer good people... I'm not sure what I mean by the word "good." At some point they're the CEO of their own empire, right? When does the addiction to being a liberal defending right wing abuse eventually become part of the riches?

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

Probably about two. After two million it would be a matter of "I don't know what to do with this so I'm going to channel it into organizational projects". But probably by the time I had half of that, there would be a noticeable difference in my approach to life. I don't know how I'd spend more than 60k a year. Maybe vacations? Maybe being extra magnanimous? Idk.

The median networth in America is about $190k and the mean is about $1M. So well before it started pushing the averages up, it would start to qualitatively change things.

I don't remember the source for this but I saw an analysis that showed that above $75k-80k (in the 2010s), increased income no longer was correlated with increased life satisfaction.