{"id":123848,"date":"2026-05-07T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/are-the-returns-on-money-decreasing-when-is-enough-enough-in-singapore\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:39:40","slug":"are-the-returns-on-money-decreasing-when-is-enough-enough-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/are-the-returns-on-money-decreasing-when-is-enough-enough-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the returns on money decreasing? When is &#8220;enough&#8221; enough in Singapore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>Most people have heard some version of this: &#8220;Money buys happiness up to a point, then it doesn&#8217;t.&#8221; The research today is more nuanced: In their 2010 paper, Kahneman and Deaton wrote: &#8220;Higher income buys life satisfaction but not happiness.&#8221; New research argues that happiness may continue to increase with income for most people, but not equally for everyone. As Wharton researcher Matthew Killingsworth said: &#8220;For most people, larger income is associated with greater happiness.&#8221; Both may be true simultaneously: Money may continue to help, but <em>additional profit per additional dollar<\/em> Often shrinks\u2014especially when your basics are already covered. So yes, diminishing returns exist \u2013 but money still matters.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was written by a Financial Horse contributor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Table of Contents&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v4.0\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"3nfhalVK\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"blyG8KXs\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people have heard some version of this: &#8220;Money buys happiness up to a point, then it doesn&#8217;t.&#8221; The research today is more nuanced: In their 2010 paper, Kahneman and Deaton wrote: &#8220;Higher income buys life satisfaction but not happiness.&#8221; New research argues that happiness may continue to increase with income for most people, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[12816,862,3823,2389],"class_list":{"0":"post-123848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-meditation","8":"tag-decreasing","9":"tag-money","10":"tag-returns","11":"tag-singapore"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123849,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123848\/revisions\/123849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}