> Life with $500 million and $1 billion would not be very different. Except for one important detail: membership in the Three Comma Club :-). Purchasing power

> Life with $500 million and $1 billion would not be very different. Except for one important detail: membership in the Three Comma Club :-). Purchasing power has long ceased to matter for these people: money is just a way to keep score in a game. It can be traded for equally pointless status symbols like bigger yachts, tropical islands, or (recently) Mars rockets. That bitcoin billionaire would much rather turn $500 million into dollar bills and set them on fire than let them be used to fix some of America's worn-out roads and bridges.