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See rich people as a counterpoint to your argument

It's not a counterpoint. For a rich person, each additional dollar is worth less than it is for a poor person.

and yet Warren Buffett continues to work?

There is a high social status associated with his job. If he were a janitor with the same wealth, I doubt he'd be rushing in to scrub toilets all day.

Though I'm several orders of magnitude less well-off than Mr Buffett, I still have more than enough that I could stop working now and survive well enough the next 50 years.

I continue to work because I genuinely enjoy what I do.

I didn't say there isn't a diminishing value of each dollar, but your comment seemed to imply that at a certain point, people will be "content" at a certain income level and not try to get more money.

Rich people are a counterpoint because there are people with incomes the size of a small country, and they are still striving for money. Given the diminishing utility of familiar pleasures, I think its likely that constantly reaching for "more" is the norm, rather than the exception.

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