What is the *prime* amount of money to bring you happiness?

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The answer is 42

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Point of diminishing happiness is 75K. Then work stress makes you less happy

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Source? My understanding is that marginal happiness starts to decrease (on average) after 75k, which is not what you said

the day when we stop correlating money with happiness is the day when we will become happy

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100-120K is what I will say.

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More.

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household income of 350,000-500k

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Enough to quit and never have to deal with people again

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$1M/yr will allow me to retire at 45 and live with my family every year in another country/ city / island- you name it. See the world without worrying about money

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1,000,000,000.01

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it depends.

All the monies

Goal is $5 M invested- presumably enough to live on annual returns.

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