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A comment on Ask HN: How much money is enough?.

Re:Ask HN: How much money is enough? by hansy on Sunday December 29, 2013 @08:28PM (#6982530)
When related to happiness, some have said (annually) $75,000: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2012/07/27/how-muc...

Others claim $161,0000: http://www.cnbc.com/id/50027184

There was a good study about diminishing marginal utility of wealth I read a while back. I'll see if I can find and post it. Don't quote me on this, but I think $5M was a good number.

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Re:Ask HN: How much money is enough? by jayhuang on Monday December 30, 2013 @12:23AM (#6983172)
Yea, I believe the most common number was $70k/$75k per year depending on the report. After that, it's mostly diminishing returns.
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