Experience well-being and household income seem to follow a logarithmic curve. This is unexpected to me! https://i.imgur.com/4cMP5vs.jpg

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Unfortunately this graph doesn’t apply to every engineer here that started their career making 6 figures

I’m curious what this looks like at much higher amounts ($2m/year, for example). In many cities, it’s easy for people to spend $500k/year lavishly, especially with a family.

Just saw this on Tiktok this morning. My internet has come a full circle

I expect both to converge at some point where more income makes no difference.

Common myth - the log increase signifies diminishing bounded returns, some fairly-low good enough point.

Reality - this data indicates UNBOUNDED happiness returns vs increasing wealth, all else equal.

So what does the log part signify then? = Simply that returns  percentage-relative, not absolute-value-relative.

Generalizing, that makes sense to me.  The more money you have, the more access you have to temptations that degrade your health.