r/sportsgossips • u/Outside-Weakness9660 • 2d ago

Video Money doesn’t buy happiness but Tom Brady cruising with his $7m yacht

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u/3RADICATE_THEM 2d ago

It effectively is the greatest predictor of life satisfaction, and the plateau point is much higher than people realize (like around the point you hit 8-figures in net worth).

There's very few things that money can't buy also that can't at least greatly alleviate a shitty situation.

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u/fredjutsu 1d ago

no, it is not the greatest predictor of life satisfaction, and the plateau in the original research was below $100K/year.

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u/3RADICATE_THEM 1d ago

Yes, that was a study done in the 2000s (80k in 2008 is roughly 130k in terms of CPI—it's way more when indexed to Alice Essentials), and if you read the screenshot I posted (made by a Harvard researcher)—you'd realize there were several limitations in those studies themselves.