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I think the luxuries could do almost nothing to improve the minimum standard, which is dictated by national productivity and the efficiency of systems.

I think you could seize the assets from every billionaire in the US and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in day to day life. It wouldn't create more housing or more health Care because production and supply is what limits availability.

Your billionaire is not using a million times more medical services or living in a million houses or eating a million hamburgers.