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Originally Posted by loquitur
Will, I extracted two words from your post - financial happiness - because I think they are very telling. The money isn't what makes you happy; you can't eat money or live in money or drive it. What the money does is let you get things that you think will make you happy. It's a tool or a proxy, it's not an end in itself.
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I absolutely agree. That's really why raw data is so important. In order to draw comparisons between income and happiness, you'd need the income data and psych studies about contentment. That would take a ton of work and create a lot of data. Short of that, we're really in the dark.