Price Of Happiness: Missing The Things That Matter
The viral "price of happiness" number prices a survey answer, not the thing you feel, and it's quoted per person. The "price of happiness" chart came around again recently, and the number attached to it was as confident as ever. One widely shared version, built from a Remitly analysis, ranked 50 countries. The measure: how close the average wage gets to the income where happiness supposedly "plateaus." Slovenia was the only country where wages cleared the bar. In the U.S., the figure landed at 55.8%, with a "price of happiness" pegged at $134,827, precise to the dollar. The trouble is that…
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