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"On a scale from 1 to 7," researcher asks, "what is your happiness?"

In my opinion:

1. That scale is too narrow;
2. Happiness does not linearly increase with wealth. It can't, with that narrow scale. Because of that, at some point (of wealth) one out of two should happen:

A) Happiness reaches 7 and any money above that can't make it higher;
or
B) If more money always means more happiness, 7 on scale becomes like speed of light: you need more and more efforts to increase your speed as it gets closer to speed of light, and you can never reach it.
Same with happiness, that could mean trillion dollars wealth is 6.7 on that happiness scale, while 100 trillion dollars could be 6.71.

Mathematically speaking, 6.71 is more than 6.7, but common sense says the efforts to gain additional 99 trillion dollars are too high for extra 0.01 happiness.

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... and then social justice warrior comes and says: if we make guy with 100 trillion dollars share his wealth evenly between himself and 99 penniless people, we will have 100 people who are 6.7 happy instead of 1 person that is 6.71 happy and 99 unhappy people.
Which (100 happy people instead of one) should be good for society.

... and then socialist and communist have something to say, too. 🙂