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There used to be a happiness cap of 75k earnings that everyone considered, but there seems to be a happiness inflation with a cap today 500k [0]. But the correl

• vlovich123 2y ago
  The problem with any study like that is it's a) hard to actually measure happiness b) your wealth depends on everyone else's. If everyone else is making 10k/year, you're 75k feels comparatively like a lot more & goes a lot further because costs are scaled down similarly. More importantly, humans derive a lot of satisfaction generally from comparative analysis - if I'm doing better than my neighbor, I'm happy and if I think he's doing better I'm upset.