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It's the difference between someone having $2k and $1 million dollars.
by tylersmith 3y ago
It's the difference between someone having $2k and $1 million dollars.
- Zambyte 3y agoI think with the "distinction without a difference" bit they meant that if you look like you have $2k instead of looking like you have $1m, what is the difference in your life than just having $2k? The answer to that is: you have $1m of peace of mind to live your comfortable lifestyle of someone with $2k. Now living the lifestyle of someone woth $2k might not be particularly desirable to most, but living the life of a multi-millionaire with that relatively same level of peace of mind sounds like a crazy nice way to live.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoYes, exactly. If you live like you're making minimum wage as a millionaire that's obvious, but if you're living like a multi-millionaire instead of a billionaire how could you even tell?
- DennisP 3y agoDepends on how many multis you're talking about. A billionaire who wants them can have a large yacht, private jet, multiple large homes, staff for everything. Someone with $10 million will be living an upper-middle-class lifestyle, but without needing to work. Maybe a second house or a boat or plane they pilot themselves, but no full-time staff. $100 million could start having the billionaire stuff but at a smaller scale. Vast difference in political influence, too.
- tylersmith 3y agoYou could tell by the 1000x difference in spending.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoBut the differences there are material - rent, food, utilities, these all function on a scale of thousands. Millions to billions? You don't need to care about any of those. You've very much left the mundane monetary worries behind.