Hence the banana-peels. If you're going to make an argument about people being richer and poorer, without discussing money, wealth, or inflation, you're doing everyone a disservice.
Actually, my point was, the amount of money was not the point of the article, but being the richest man yet having a less comfortable life was.
Ah, so the title of the essay was click-bait.
Clever.
those poor extra-ordinary Americans, the Amish, who are leading similar lives to their ancestors 100 years ago, free from the burdens of 21st century technology...
Richer but not necessarily more contented.
Perhaps. But not many people wants to live like an Amish.