>My answer to "how much money would make you happy" is infinite. There will always be something I spend money on to make myself happier. the point of contentio

>My answer to "how much money would make you happy" is infinite. There will always be something I spend money on to make myself happier. the point of contention with the other responders here is probably one of terminology wherein they are discussing previous literature (which really amounts to "reducing causes of unhappiness" more than "actually increasing happiness") and you are discussing actually increasing happiness beyond the "baseline" discussed in their cited studies. i'm in agreement with both lines of thinking; after a certain point, money doesn't reduce the major causes of unhappiness much further, but it probably does provide more reasons to be happy, if only transiently. the hedonic set-point is far from a settled concept.