Attitude towards money.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 05-26-2015, 21:56

I remember a study that said people reached a saturation of happiness due to money at about 70,000 dollars per year. Beyond that, any additional money did not confer additional long term happiness.

**Montmorency** · 05-26-2015, 22:15

I reached my happiness saturation in my mid teens.

**Greyblades** · 05-27-2015, 00:01

You earned 70 grand a year... at 16? What did you do?

**Gilrandir** · 05-27-2015, 14:52

Originally Posted by a completely inoffensive name

I remember a study that said people reached a saturation of happiness due to money at about 70,000 dollars per year. Beyond that, any additional money did not confer additional long term happiness.

How utterly unhappy Bill Gates must be.

**rory_20_uk** · 05-28-2015, 09:32

Originally Posted by Gilrandir

How utterly unhappy Bill Gates must be.

No happier - not that you get less happy.

Once the basic things are taken care of, people manage to get equally stressed / jealous about all sorts of crap. Apparently the way to be happiest is to earn more than those you perceive as your cohort. Perhaps this is why TV increasingly makes things worse as people see the reality TV "stars" and what they get up to and view they should have the same and therefore are unhappy that they don't.

I know that I am no happier because of the extra money I earn that 5 years ago. In both cases I earned enough for a roof, food and transport and so had no real concerns.