I think the age old adage of happiness not rising after something $80k'ish per year is simply a misapplication of the linear scale to the problem. There's ampl

I think the age old adage of happiness not rising after something $80k'ish per year is simply a misapplication of the linear scale to the problem. There's ample evidence that happiness still rises with income, just logarithmically: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/29/yes-money-really-can-buy-happiness/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/29/yes-m... Which honestly makes a _lot_ of sense to me, since most human senses work on the log scale for better magnitude compression: Light sensitivity, Hearing and lots of others. The log scale just fits very well with any perception application designed to not overload neural networks — and if you plot this on the linear scale, it always looks like there's a knee in the curve where it stops rising, when in reality, it's just gradually getting slower.