[GDC7]

but that isn't very smart strategy because it prevents you from spending every dollar that you have ever earned.

At some point you want to open the floodgates so you don't leave any quality of life on the table.

You can't do that on margin loans, whereas you can if you are able to engineer a tax efficient way to cashout without paying capital gain tax

[nikitaga]

Nobody who uses this strategy will come even close to spending every dollar that they earned, they spend all they want yet still end up leaving all their wealth to their kids when they die.

[GDC7]

> Nobody who uses this strategy will come even close to spending every dollar that they earned

But why? It's a lot of quality of life left on the table.

[yifanl]

After the first hundred million dollars spent on personal expenditures, what material gains to quality of life are there?

[GDC7]

However small, isn't it better than losing them? I think yes.

Because you can't bring that "quality of life potential" in the grave

[Jasper_]

The FT runs a magazine called "How To Spend It" with ideas for what cheeky stylish thing to buy this month after you already spent it on what you want to. That this is apparently a lucrative business possibly tells you that you can max out your quality of life and still have money leftover.

https://www.ft.com/htsi

[kadoban]

It's not small, it's zero or even negative. If you already have everything you want, buying more is just extra crap you have to deal with.

[Spooky23]

Many people with money like this flip; preserving capital and reducing risk becomes the destination, not the journey.

It’s the way humans are wired, and there’s a whole industry of lawyers, accountants and others to support it.

[gabrielhidasy]

Really depends, I can see a lot of quality of life on leaving family set for the next few centuries. And a lot of headache on managing the next personal island.