How much is enough?

There is no single answer or even general concept to guide anyone on this. It is strictly personal.

I had a department head who once told me, when I only had two pairs of shoes that I wore to work, that every man needs at least 14 pairs of shoes, one should never wear a pair of shoes more than once every two weeks. I tell that to demonstrate that there is no answer to this.

Are you asking about Capitalist or Socialist societies?

Enough is enough.

Once a King, always a King.
Once a Knight … is enough.

How long is a piece of string?

@zenvelo I tell that to demonstrate that there is no answer to this.
So, then one can say a person stuck renting an apartment but want to own a home would just be jealous of the person who has five large homes but complains they need three more large homes to have enough?

@Hypocrisy_Central why ask about jealousy? Any evolved person knows that jealousy (or as it is in the commandments, covet) is a waste of time and energy. I live in an apartment, being jealous of someone with a dozen homes means nothing but wasted energy.

I have often wondered the same thing. Finally decided that whatever answer I had was only relevant to me. Everyone has their own threshold.

^^ @Hypocrisy_Central why ask about jealousy?
In this neck of the woods, some, not all, by their rhetoric seem to want to punish or penalize the well-to-do or uber rich because they have all that stull. Usually those doing the griping are in positions they are not totally happy with but cannot seem to do better or get ahead, they are especially critical of those who have all their stuff but do not share it in a manner they (the have nots or close to it) feel they should. Upon thinking I thought it would have been better to phrase it as should the wealthy be penalized because they manage to accumulate a lot of stuff?

One of my favorite sayings: “All I want is a little more than I will ever get.” –
© Ashleigh Brilliant

I don’t give a fuck if you have 40 houses.

But I will get livid if you have 40 houses and your employees are eligible for food stamps. Simple as.

@Hypocrisy Central My criticism of the rich isn’t about jealousy or the failure to share. In fact to my mind, the rich act exactly as they should. They act in their own self interest. My criticism is about the fact that the rich have engineered the game board to guarantee their accumulation of wealth at the DIRECT and DEMONSTRABLE expense of the rest of us. In the current environment this is the ONLY way for them to achieve it. And the results speak for themselves.

When you have enough that you don’t worry about becoming disabled or out of work permanently.

@stanleybmanly My criticism is about the fact that the rich have engineered the game board to guarantee their accumulation of wealth at the DIRECT and DEMONSTRABLE expense of the rest of us. In the current environment this is the ONLY way for them to achieve it.
Is it though? Out of the 158 families that put in the most campaign seed money into the Presidential race last year nearly half were immigrants from the ex-Soviet Republic, India, Pakistan, Brazil, etc. they were not from here or old money. The New York times went on to say that these millionaires were self-made, they took risk with hedge funds, real estate, purchasing devalued oil leases, etc. that is why most funneled their money to the GOP because they favored less government regulations because they felt it would help others achieve the wealth they have easier, with less sandbags in their way. The notion that the wealthy rigged the game so one else can get in is folly, if Yankees learned to channel their immigrant and do as the immigrants, think outside the box instead of being trapped in a box of their own making, maybe they can get to a point they can spend $50,000 for a watch.