The Science of a Happy and Meaningful Life ft. Dacher Keltner
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Money Doesn't Matter at Every Level of Income
Happiness scales with income up until about 80,000 or something 70, 80,000. After that there's like no correlation anymore because all your basic needs are met. With $400,000, those stresses and joys are really no different than if you make $75,000. So money doesn't alter your emotional well being. But once you're lower middle class, middle class and above, it does. Eddie says people grossly overestimate the power of money for well being.
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