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Actually not. Money increases happiness logarithmically. Of course, work may decrease happiness and there's an optimal work/money tradeoff involved, but the happiness payoff from money, per se, never stop.



Are you talking about reality here? Do you even have a meaningful way to quantify happiness (the one that you claim maps to a logarithmic relationship)?


Things like this: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/05/daily-c...

The standard way to measure happiness seems to be to simply ask.




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