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The theme of this discussion is about freedom. That includes not having to rely on an external source of spending money, yearly income, "fuck-you" money, or wh

The theme of this discussion is about freedom. That includes not having to rely on an external source of spending money, yearly income, "fuck-you" money, or whatever you want to call it. This is also known as financial independence. The $75k per year has to come from somewhere. If it's not interest from an investment or some other automatic payout, then you are not free because you have to work at making sure you always get that $75k a year to be happy. In paraschopra's comment about calculating how much is enough, he mentioned life expectancy. That tells me is isn't just considering an annual amount of money to be happy, but a greater amount from which the annual money comes from.

sliverstorm 13y ago
Ah, you are right, I missed the part about life expectancy. Of course, the $75k number is based on working individuals- I expect the number will be completely different for non-working individuals. People who are not working both do not enjoy the same life-satisfaction that can be had from rewarding employment, and do not suffer the stresses of that employment, so who knows where the balance of happiness lies. Perhaps if we are talking about someone who is not working for their money, there is no such thing as "enough", as they have no happiness "cost" to simply having more money (as they do not need to work for it)?