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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
I keep hearing this, that the ratio between income and happiness peaks is £50,000pa (which sounds like a lot to Americans, but because the cost of living is so high it's the equivalent of someone living in the US earning $50k also). Any amount earned over that doesn't correlate with a higher 'happiness', but it does correlate with a higher anxiety about consumption and material goods.
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The Dalai Lama mentions this too, although he seemed to oversimplify to the point of making it sound like poor folk are happier that the rich. (At least that's how it read to me at 2 am.)
I do love reading Buddhist teachers like the Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh, but sometimes I wonder if they aren't a little out of touch.
