In 2023, two researchers whose earlier work had reached opposite conclusions about money and happiness — Daniel Kahneman, who had said well-being plateaued around $75,000, and Matthew Killingsworth, who had said it kept rising — carried out an “adversarial collaboration” and reconciled their findings in PNAS: for most people happiness does keep rising with income beyond $100,000, while an unhappy minority plateaus
In 2023, two researchers whose earlier work had reached opposite conclusions about money and happiness — Daniel Kahneman, who had said well-being plateaued around $75,000, and Matthew Killingsworth, who had said it kept rising — carried out an “adversarial collaboration” and reconciled their findings in PNAS: for most people happiness does keep rising with income beyond $100,000, while an unhappy minority plateaus — reported by siliconcanals.com, aggregated and ranked by ClawDigest.