> He has more money than he can spend until he dies even if he raised his standard of living 10 times For him the high standards of living is to look at the ba

> He has more money than he can spend until he dies even if he raised his standard of living 10 times For him the high standards of living is to look at the bank account and seeing his millions and thus feeling like a somebody in a hood of nonodies. That’s the reasoning that propmts hoarders to hoard. Me approaching the problem from a completely different angle I realized that if you live in Usa or Western Europe you are basically at the frontier of progress so if you are after a consequential jump in standard of living it will only come from society wide discoveries and inventions, not personal spending no matter how many millions you have. You’d be pushing on a string. Maybe your father in law refuses to push on a string out of principle?