[wenc]

> the psychologists who conducted the study find that the one making $200,000 is probably no happier than the one making $120,000. This is because both the $120,000 and $200,000 women have incomes above $105,000, which according to their research is the point at which greater household income in the US is not associated with greater happiness. The technical term for this cutoff is the income “satiation point.”

Sounds like satiation point is where the lower levels of Maslow's hierarchy have been satisfied.

This article [0] makes the point that mastery, belonging, and autonomy contribute to happiness, as well as the worldview of abundance vs one of scarcity.

[0] Why so many smart people aren't happy https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/04/why-so-...

[gowld]

This research, like so many others,ignored the possibly that people want to retire before they die, so need to amass savings.

[AstralStorm]

Exactly, incomplete results being similar to Odds Ratios in medicine not based on endpoint mortality, morbidity and ratings.

Not to mention subject to massive binning effect. You might have binned single people with married couples with kids, both of which have different requirements.