Bryan Johnson· Author
From 500k you'd have to go to 2 million a year to get that same happiness bump.
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From 500k you'd have to go to 2 million a year to get that same happiness bump.
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If you go from 50k to 150k a year of income that's like it's revolutionary. It changes everything. If you go from 150k to 250k you're like things are a little better. But if it you would have to go to 500k to get the same happiness bump that you got just from 100k increase earlier.
The update to that study is it's a like a a curve linear graph where it's a really steep ascent of happiness and then north of 75 to 100k the curve still goes up but at a much shallower rate. And if you measure it individual by individual it actually is huge variance.