[quote=FlyerInHi]True, NSR. But medical advancement is creating a health gap.
Dentistry is generally not well covered even with health insurance. Within one race you can look at teeth and determine social status.
Look at the quality and cleanliness of the complexion to determine social status. Look at overall weight and fitness.
And even if physical appearance is no indication of real health, I’m sure that it’s a determinant of psychological health which affects the drive to do better.[/quote]
The real determinant is stress. Lack of adequate financial resources and uncertainty in financial resources are a huge component of that.
You’re mistaking looking at winners and thinking that it’s the fruit of the money when it reality it’s the fruit of the lower stress of winning.
Check the health of any high income, highish networth person when their business has lost it’s edge and their health suffers accordingly.
As for the socialite idle rich, yea, over $5M or $25 M, wining and losing is just an ego thing, it’s like playing monopoly and has no consequences.