Buying Stuff vs Experiences
Have you ever wondered whether buying something will make you happy? Maybe it's that new car, that new phone, or the clothes, stuff to make your home look more nicer. Does More Money Make You Happier? Money does have some effect on our happiness levels, but only to a certain point. Studies showed that anymore than 75,000 USD per year, the level of satisfaction that comes from making more money kind of plateau off, so what is the reason behind it? Well we humans have developed to get used to luxuries of life and our lives are always built on standard, and once you reach a certain level of standard and comfort, you can't go below it and when you do, you feel unhappy, but our level of pleasure derived from one source diminishes as we get more and more of it. Imagine eatin a cake. You are happy for the first few slices, but as you eat more cake everyday and when it's abundant, it does not feel as good or tasty when you just had it once in a while. So it's the same