> “Money isn’t everything but not having it is” - Kanye

The thing is returns start diminshing faster than people realize. Once you get yourself housed, fed and clothed its much more of a hamster wheel than people are often willing to admit to themselves, at the expense of their own happiness.

Can confirm, recently doubled my income. Still dead inside.

Most Americans aren't one traffic stop away from a huge legal bill AND medical bill (if you survive). For the rest of us, the returns diminish after a somewhat larger buffer.

Also, "money doesn't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes"

Money gives you freedom to pursue your happinness.

Money gives you the illusion of freedom to pursue your happiness.

Then you to see the reality of misery with limited money.

and, "I know everybody says money can't buy happiness, but it could buy me a boat, a truck to pull it, and a Yeti 110 iced down with some silver bullets"

And justice is incredibly expensive

> That peace of mind is peace

Kanye has peace of mind?

Well, I think there are sweet spots for every bracket of wealth. For most of us, having a job and a home that we can reasonably keep until our dying days without living on our knees is the sweet spot.

Once you cross into fame and multi million or multi billion (Kanye, Elon), that sweet spot is nothing to them. Their sweet spot is influence, impact, and the like. In their bracket I think few reached a sweet spot without tarnishing their desired presentation. Someone like Bezos is looked at as a villain, so he didn’t get it. Bill Gates is one or two allegations away from affairs and Epstein stuff being leaked. Warren Buffet is somewhat at the sweet spot but he is a much older man who doesn’t need the validation that Elon needs. In other words, their sweet spots are about as hard to hit as our sweet spots (financial well being).

I'm not quite sure what you mean by sweet spot.

I think all of the folks you mention really don't give a crap about what people think of them.