[SeanAppleby]

You're completely correct, diminishing returns of income on happiness is well established, and I would be surprised if people here were not aware.

This community skews very hard towards high earners though, so people here probably view that as something that goes without saying, but that isn't within the purview of this particular discussion about the rat race in tech.

Among this community, it's probably true that a significant raise wouldn't significantly change their day to day lives, although obviously that is less and less true as their baseline income goes down.

[mcguire]

Diminishing returns of absolute income on happiness, or of income relative to some cohort?