Enough money buys immensely more freedom with your time. Translates directly into liberty of a sort more tangible and personally meaningful day-to-day than half

Enough money buys immensely more freedom with your time. Translates directly into liberty of a sort more tangible and personally meaningful day-to-day than half the stuff in the bill of rights. That’s how I know all the studies that put the inflection point for the happiness-per-dollar graphs well under the point at which you no longer have to give up time you could be, say, spending with your kids, just to make a buck, they’re full of shit. Zero chance the study isn’t flawed beyond hope of salvation. [edit] put it this way: retiring at 45 versus 65 with enough money for not-working to be very low-risk and stress-free gets you the equivalent of about nine years of extra life in terms of waking hours, right in your prime years, not tacked on at the end, and that’s assuming all sixteen (say) waking hours per day are equal, while really you’ll be getting back some of the best hours and also not being as wiped-out and distracted for the remaining ones, so it’s actually even better than that. Money stops efficiently buying happiness somewhere in the low-six-figures of income? Nope, don’t buy it for a second.