[JackFr]

> You earn $1MM per year.

That means that someone valued my time, ability and labor enough to pay me for it. That is, the exchange took place because given the circumstance of my employer, my time, ability and labor were worth more to them than $1MM. I was just able to capture the $1MM portion.

The idea assertion 'I spend too much' absent any context is as meaningless as the assertion that 'the government spends too much.'

[voynich61]

There are myriad ways to make obscene sums without doing anything for the world, as there are myriad ways to make an incredible impact while making relatively little.

PS: the 'spend too much' situation is the one where the poster spends $500,000 on Bengal Tigers and blow.

[JackFr]

I seem to have missed the parent, and a couple of siblings.

Yikes. So scratch the 'absent any context'. Context was there I missed it.