As you well know, I will choose sacrifice a lot to maintain the level of life that I appreciate, and to be able to maintain choices that I have made. Of course when I make such a choice, it is a lock that in time I will find a way to make the choice that I really want.

Beyond that I am not greedy. I currently earn more than I need to. I could easily earn even more - but don't because I appreciate the work environment.

So at present I literally could not be paid enough to be seriously unhappy with my life for a bit. A million is not worth twice what $500,000 is to me, nor is $500,000 worth 5 times $100,000. But $100,000 is worth well more than triple $33,333.33.

Actually that is false. I could be paid enough to be unhappy with my life for a bit. The necessary threshold is enough money that I never have to think about working again. But as long as I have to think about working again, I don't want to leave the workforce (because re-entering is hard), and so increased money doesn't really matter to me.

I guess that I have cheap tastes. :-)

Cheers,
Ben