The more money you have, the more daily annoyances you can pay to get rid of, and the smaller they are. By the time you have billions of dollars, the things that annoy you daily can be EXTREMELY small and petty. You become disconnected from what other people are dealing with.

Oh no! It looks like they have their 51st state!

Do you prioritize not having illegal status in another country over your own ability to stay alive and stay safe?

If that’s going to happen anyway, might as well happen the first day.

German population density map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_density_in_Germany.png

U.S. population density map: https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:US_population_map.png

1 square mile is about 2.6 square km, so 2500 people in one square km is about 6500 people per square mile.

21 has been overestimated.