The point isn't to compare if you took all your money out of the bank and put in your pocket vs Warren Buffett doing the same, it's that the proportional every

The point isn't to compare if you took all your money out of the bank and put in your pocket vs Warren Buffett doing the same, it's that the proportional every day capital deployment/purchasing power that these people have compared to us is impossibly hard to conceptualize, so you have to start somewhere. This is almost certainly why the thought experiment focuses on menial, everyday purchases.