Different scales and different &#x27;changes&#x27;. You can give $50,000 to someone who has $10k&#x2F;yr living expenses and it might change their life. But people with $10k&#x2F;yr living expenses probably don&#x27;t typically have the work experience and skill sets of your target demographic. When MacArthur finds someone who meets both criteria, well, that&#x27;s great and a smaller award might even have more impact.<p>But if you are giving an award to someone with 6-figure salary and 5-figure annual living expenses, no $50,000 isn&#x27;t going to make as much of a difference in their lives. If you want to seriously free that person from thinking about money for a significant period of time, it better be 7 figures. And anyway, $1.5M is not all that far from a bottomless well (i.e. 5% per year).