Scale does indeed matter. The life you can live at $35,000 a year is going to be dramatically less pleasant than the life you can live at $350,000 a year, just

Scale does indeed matter. The life you can live at $35,000 a year is going to be dramatically less pleasant than the life you can live at $350,000 a year, just as the life you can live at $35,000,000 a year is going to be dramatically more pleasant than at either of those, but eventually you reach a point where even if you were to make $35,000,000,000 a year, it cannot dramatically change your life. At some point, you become so wealthy that the only difficulties that life can present to you are difficulties from which no person has immunity.