Money, meaning, and happiness

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Many of us have heard the idea that happiness plateaus at an income level of about $75,000 a year. As it turns out, there’s no such magical number and no such plateau, after all. The 2010 study by Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton found that what they called “emotional well-being” didn’t rise after the $75K. Their conclu…