His point was that it's not the only factor, and if you read that paper he cited there is a breakdown of exactly what factors contributed to happiness. A socia

His point was that it's not the only factor, and if you read that paper he cited there is a breakdown of exactly what factors contributed to happiness. A social support network was one of the highest ranked, much higher than GDP per capita (the wealth of a nation, which can be used as a proxy for personal income if you have a Gini index to weight it against). Finland comes out well ahead even if you weight it against Gini, and Finnish developers aren't earning more than US folks by a country mile.