Happy is enough
Luckily the annual Australian Unity wellbeing index - the statistical smile tracker - was released this week, which helped shed some light on this consumerist conundrum.
The what-makes-us-happy report discovered that happiness starts to stall as household income passes $100,000.
According to the authors, once you crack six figures “money loses its ability to reliably raise wellbeing and does not increase in line with increasing income”.
Which makes perfect sense. It’s a fancy way of describing what I call the economics of enough.
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