The thing is you can really only buy sycophants and pleasure, and the thing is that those aren’t love and happiness. Love and happiness are more easily found by finding equals
Money only buys happiness to up about like a 100k a year or so. I don’t know it might be even more now, but definitely not over 200k.
It used to be roughly 70k USD and 50k EUR some 10 years ago when I read the study. That’s the point at which you’re financially secure enough to have your basics needs met and have enough over to climb towards self-actualization.
Imagine having so much money you can buy love and happiness, but are so stupid you fail at both.
The thing is you can really only buy sycophants and pleasure, and the thing is that those aren’t love and happiness. Love and happiness are more easily found by finding equals
To a shallow person, it may as well be the same.
And yet he remains miserable and lonely
You can also buy yourself fewer hardships, less need, more choices. These may not directly be happiness but you’re removing obstacles to hapiness
Money only buys happiness to up about like a 100k a year or so. I don’t know it might be even more now, but definitely not over 200k.
It used to be roughly 70k USD and 50k EUR some 10 years ago when I read the study. That’s the point at which you’re financially secure enough to have your basics needs met and have enough over to climb towards self-actualization.
Probably not: https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2208661120
“Probably not”… what?