Can Money Really Buy Happiness?04:33

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Published on May 27, 2017

“Can’t Buy Me Love,” but what about happiness? Is there an ideal amount of money that a person can earn to live a perfectly satisfying life? Turns out yes. Anthony shows us what a satisfying life really costs.

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“The fact that that money can’t buy you happiness is generally well accepted.”

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“Melbourne researchers have pinpointed an amount of money that does actually make people happy.”

The price of happiness is US$162,000

“A recent study of over 5000 consumers across four continents has revealed the amount of net annual income needed for people to feel happy is an imposing US$161,810 — 15 times the global average* for an individual’s income.”

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“Every person has a genetic template, which makes us the way we are. This includes determining how intrinsically happy (or grumpy!) we may be.”

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“People say money doesn’t buy happiness. Except, according to a new study from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, it sort of does — up to about $75,000 a year.”

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“Another salvo in the ongoing debate over whether money buys happiness: New research out of the Brookings Institution claims there is no ceiling above which additional wealth stops contributing to people’s sense of well-being.”

“Income’s Influence on Happiness”

“People’s life evaluations rise steadily with income, but the reported quality of emotional daily experience levels off at a certain income level, according to a new study by two Princeton University professors, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).”

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“Recent research has begun to distinguish two aspects of subjective well-being.”

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“For a long time, we knew that there was a happiness plateau, a point where more money basically stopped buying greater satisfaction. Maybe we were wrong.”

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