It's also, weirdly, not going to make a lot of difference to the person earning it.

If you're next in line to that, you can already afford literally everything. Or stop working tomorrow and still afford _almost_ everything.

So it's about whether or not it's a good job to work in, and one that will enhance your reputation and status.

IIRC 10 year old report states 100 million usd net worth is enough to buy whatever you want.

Depends on your appetite of course. But I think it's safe to say that if you're not satisfied at $10m net worth, you're never going to be, and you'll just keep on chasing til circumstances force you to stop.

50M in salary is actually quite high. The S&P 500 average is less than 20M. I’ve seen companies half the size of Intel pay their CEOs ~11M.

It is high. And it is wrong. See details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42341514