Oh yes, but depending on where you live, these effects kick in way under the "being rich" threshold. (America with its strange and expensive healthcare being an outlier in the developed world, I understand that.)

What I was speaking about was the simplistic "more of X, more of Y" approach of the OP, though I understand that it was mostly sarcastic in nature.

I would even argue that there is a sweet spot where you have enough money to live comfortably, but not enough to be a promising scam/crime target.