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It’s boggling to me that you’d imply that in order to “wind down” Gates needs to spend $650 million dollars. He is a human being and there is no evidence to suggest people worth 100,000 a middle class westerner needs to spend multiple order of magnitude more money to treat stress.

This is making me wish for more Jack Dorsey’s who spend mere thousands on meditation retreats.

Your coffee mug example makes your reflexive defence of billionaire excess even more obvious. I’m with Peter Singer and the Effective Altruists, we absolutely should criticize the rich for buying Rolex when Timex will do, and the savings can be used to buy medicine for sick children. The yacht is like 50,000 Rolex watches.