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It's not so much that money buys happiness, than lack of money that makes you miserable. When you have enough (60000$/year apparently), having more doesn't enha

• liedra 16y ago
  This completely gels with my experience. I like having enough money to live on comfortably: have a place that's just big enough, have money to eat out (not too expensively) when I feel like it, have enough to do something special occasionally, have enough to buy the sorts of foods I like (slightly more expensive locally produced foods, I'm a big fan of local production), have enough to buy some gadget or other if I save up for a bit. For me it's partly the saving up and appreciation of the expensive things that gives me happiness :) I make about 55k a year, and it's enough for me. Any more and I'd stop appreciating what now takes a bit of time to save up for. :) (though I wouldn't say no to a one off cash injection for a really nice sporty weekender car ;)
• bryanlarsen 16y ago
  No, that's the part that's been debunked. Look at the graph in my link: the biggest jump in happiness is from 75-100K to 100K+. The correlation isn't high: there are lots of unhappy rich people, and lots of happy poor people, but the correlation is statistically significant.