What about the headache of maintaining a big home? I've seen what it is like to care for a large home. It's a nightmare, whether you have money or not. Every pool, every gymnasium, every commercial-grade appliance, etc. They all require maintenance, repair, and eventual replacement. To do that, it costs a lot more and the available labor is much more limited. You have to wait weeks for some guy who lives two states away to come in and work on your elevator and when he gets there he charges you an unbelievable amount of money to do basic things. And when things aren't broken, you have to always be renovating or updating something. Things that look like they are aging or out of style don't signal your status because they tell your guests and visitors that you have a big home, but maybe can't afford it. So you're always updating. Always renovating. It's all a show.

The idea of dealing with all of these "luxuries" is awful to me and I've seen wealthy people who didn't have to work basically turn home maintenance into their job because it required just as much time and stress as anything else. What is the point of wealth if things you use it for give you just as much headache as a middle class person's job?