• Fallibilist@feddit.uk
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        After that, it starts going downhill.

        No study suggests this. It keeps going up - you’re just hitting diminishing returns.

        • MangoCats@feddit.it
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          Above the $150K threshold (was $70K when they first widely published the idea, but inflation…) it really depends on what you are doing for that $150K, what kind of responsibilities you have taken on, stressors you have, and zero responsibilities or stressors is not a great place to be on the curve, people with no reasons to live aren’t in a great spot.

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          There’s a trillionaire that is desperate to get into pedophile parties, and between him and the common person, there’s a lot of millionaires and billionaires in those pedophile parties, so there’s clearly a downward trending curve.

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            Yeah but that’s because he’s a shit excuse for a human, and is fundamentally broken. Whereas a normie would self-actualize with the resources to do so.

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      Maybe his happiness is so far up the scale it folded back in on itself and circled back to depression. Like getting a burn from dry ice.

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      No, you’re picturing a linear curve on a graph (i.e. a straight line). Most systems in life do not behave linearly though. An S shape is probably more accurate, with happiness levelling off past a certain point.

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        12 hours ago

        I’ll agree with the S, but there’s also probably a bit of a bump up at the low end when you get into “nothing left to lose” territory.