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You can buy happiness

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Would you rather be a high earner in Indiana, or struggling to get by in California?
Struggling to get by in California. I hate Indiana, and truly I'd rather be homeless here in California than go back there. The weather and social climate alone makes this a very easy choice for me. And it's so much easier to make money here I shouldn't have to worry about it.
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
But, in regards to happiness, science has not found it to make much a difference beyond about $75,000/year.
That was in the older study. Have you seen the graph in the current one?
Also, I'm not arguing that more money means more happiness. I'm saying that the urge to store more money never goes away.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yeah, who would've thought that having money to pay rent, bills, and have some left over would make someone happy? So surprising. I wonder how much money they wasted on this study of the obvious. Unfortunately, it's only getting harder and harder to have that sort of income, if you were lucky enough to ever earn that much in the first place.

Maybe that's my key to making that sort of money - just make up an excuse to do a study on something really common sense and rake in the money telling people what they already know. :D
Most in my immediate area have trouble enough to make 30000 a year to put food on the table and keeping a roof over their heads.

It's a pretty sad situation.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
But, in regards to happiness, science has not found it to make much a difference beyond about $75,000/year.
And you have to realize, storing/saving money can't really happen if you don't make enough. You try, but this and that keeps eating it away. But when you have plenty of money, it is significantly easier to put it back. What else are you going to do with it? You have enough and more than you need.
There is a lot you can do.
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Audie

Veteran Member
The study dealt with US participants only. I guess it would be lower in countries with a working social net. Not living in fear of total bankruptcy or devastating illness will increase the life satisfaction index.
Those last can happen to anyone.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
Not enough? Really? What would be enough?

Depends on how you want to live.
With 75 k you could afford a modest one bedroom
in an outlying area.
With less there is this-https://allthatsinteresting.com/cage-homes-hong-kong
75k USD would mean some drastic changes for me.
 
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Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Did not have such kind of money, but managed to be happy without it.
The study dealt with US participants only. I guess it would be lower in countries with a working social net. Not living in fear of total bankruptcy or devastating illness will increase the life satisfaction index.
It helps greatly in places where family ties are strong.
 
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Viker

Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Depends on how you want to live.
With 75 k you could afford a modest one bedroom
in an outlying area.
With less there is this-https://allthatsinteresting.com/cage-homes-hong-kong
75k USD would mean some drastic changes for me.
I take it that rent and real estate is outrageous in Hong Kong.
You could live like a queen in Louisville at 75k US dollars.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
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Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
That was in the older study. Have you seen the graph in the current one?
Also, I'm not arguing that more money means more happiness. I'm saying that the urge to store more money never goes away.
That's probably an evolutionary thing. Money doesn't go bad and storing it away can help during an emergency should we find ourselves with little. It may be, in my opinion, something more primal such as in how we find high fat and sugary foods appealing because our brains are still used to that being energy to store today to be used tomorrow when the food might not be as plentiful.
 
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