### Comment:
I think another part of it is your social circle. If you're 'poor' compared to the people you interact with regularly, you are going to be motivated to accumulate more. This isn't true for all people, of course.

### REPLY:
probably, but even if Warren Buffett is friends with Alice Walton or whoever, they've gotta basically call it even at that point, right? unless they're unbelievably petty

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