Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
it's only a useful suggestion that I donate it if I can keep surviving without it myself.
The guy figured out or decided or pulled out of his ass that $30K is the number where more people could lose it with less bad consequence than the good consequence for the person who gets it. Not that anyone could live in any way on $30K.
I mean, all I know about this is what I read in Bob's post, but theoretically it makes sense to me.
I mean, all I know about this is what I read in Bob's post, but theoretically it makes sense to me.
Same here, but I was going on the assumption that "most" here:
$30,000 was picked because that's the point after which the benefit most people get from an extra dollar isn't as great as the benefit other people with less money would get from it.
is an average, and that if you got local, say to LA or NY, the number would be higher, and if you took it to Jamaica, it'd be lower.
I think there's some kind of study where the happiness you get from each additional dollar declines significantly once you've made $30,000.
In economics it's called the "decreasing marginal utility of income."
I think there's some kind of study where the happiness you get from each additional dollar declines significantly once you've made $30,000.
And that doesn't vary with cost of living?
Unrelatedly:
I like how the bubble imagery helps you extrapolate the premise to its natural conclusion.
oooh! quantification of happiness!
I think there's some kind of study where the happiness you get from each additional dollar declines significantly once you've made $30,000.
So money can buy happiness (to a point)?
So money can buy happiness (to a point)?
It can buy lots and lots and lots of chocolate and TiVo storage. How you feel about it is your own business.
I feel that we are just a step or two away from social capital. help me over the leap.