50 million is still not an 'I have staff and a house in every major city' kind of thing. But once you get to the billions you have an 'I can make significant ch

50 million is still not an 'I have staff and a house in every major city' kind of thing. But once you get to the billions you have an 'I can make significant changes to the world' button. Want to redevelop North St Louis? Get 1:1 time with any politician I want to influence them about any hobby project? Make a university build a dorm without windows, because I pay them? It's very different than just caring for food and shelter, but at those levels, personal luxury isn't really the most important thing. And really, for many things, even a billion isn't enough. Imagine you wanted to personally make high speed train happen between two US cities. A billion doesn't even begin to fund your real life Sim City project.