Comment by circlefavshape

In "Income & Happiness" you're missing that there are two complementary definitions of happiness - "satisfaction" and "affect". Satisfaction, or how you feel about your life, is what is shown in your graphs. "Affect" is your direct emotional experience of your life. What you call "wrongness" is just a failure to distinguish between the two - more money makes increasingly smug, but (beyond a certain point) doesn't make your like any more fun