Arnold Schwarzenegger famously explained that he remains committed to a demanding bodybuilding regimen even long after becoming fabulously wealthy precisely because his physique is a form of wealth that cannot be bought at any price, and is available to almost anyone who wants it badly enough. A billionaire facing an acute and aggressive terminal cancer diagnosis has all the options anyone could want, but one.
Less work, less risk, the ability to corruptly influence multiple people in congress by proxy rather than scrounging around for funds from corrupt private individuals out to influence policy in their favour.
Most people aren’t public figures, wealthy or not
He had a job, a bunch of kids, multiple wives, and a 250 M divorce, among other things.
Obviously some people knew this. It just wasn’t in the public interest, like 99.99999% of things that have ever happened :-)
To me it means living in a country where the government's debt ain't more than 30% of the country's GDP. So I moved to such a country.