&gt; Everyone loves to cite the study that &quot;above $75,000&#x2F;year money doesn&#x27;t make you happier&quot; - without realizing that it&#x27;s simply saying that there are diminishing returns above that point (standard economic marginal utility concept), not that overall happiness goes down.<p>No, the studies I&#x27;ve seen (though it was at around $200K, not $75K, in, IIRC, early-2000s) that there was <i>no</i> marginal utility above the stated point. That declining marginal utility means only that each additional unit of income brings <i>less</i> additional satisfaction than the last, but there was a point in the study at which there was <i>no</i> additional satisfaction from additional income.