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By Tanner Garrity A number of studies over the years have linked modest annual salaries with ideal life satisfaction, in order to illustrate that well-being isn’t an infinite resource and actually tends to plateau. The exact number has changed over the years — updating with inflation and more exacting research — from $75,000 a year (a number computed by Angus Deaton, a former Nobel laureate in economics) to around $105,000 a year. Is it impossible to be happy if you have three cars and a beach house? Of course not. It just becomes more difficult to derive happiness from what money can buy. (So…