[antidesitter]

But the probability of loosing your life savings is greater if you’re poor (since the quantity is smaller), so you have more to worry about.

[sixstringbudha]

But loosing a million bucks is going to hurt much more than losing 100 bucks. Apart from that, it is much easier to sit on 100 bucks, not doing anything with it, than to sit on a million dollars. Doing nothing with money is less worrisome than taking risks with a lot of money..