Puri: Life satisfaction rises with income beyond $75,000 without plateauing
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Shaan Puri discusses an essay by software engineer Dan Luu that debunks the common pop-science myth that happiness plateaus at $75,000 per year.
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“If you actually look at the chart shows that if you look at it on a non log scale, which he puts the graph here, it's basically like the more money you have, the more your satisfaction goes up and there's no flattening out. It doesn't go up at the same rate. So yes, it's true that going from zero dollars to 30,000 dollars to 75,000 dollars gives you a bigger jump in happiness than going from one million to two million or two million to four million. But the happiness does keep going up. Your life, your satisfaction does keep going up on, on all the reported scales.”
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