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Showing that people believe they would be happier with some alternative does not imply that they are miserable in the current state. One might be happy making

• necovek 7y ago
  Thank you for being pedantic in place of the OP :) I've acknowledged that there is a distinction between "happier" and "miserable" by claiming that in the terms of this discussion, it's "pedantic". I.e. the posters who first used "miserable" did not mean miserable in the real sense of the word: I understood it as use of extremes to draw a point. Just like you did not compare $100k and $101k which would mostly be irrelevant in regards to happiness (but if every employee got 1% raise, that might be close to 1% of your operating costs), but you used an example with an order of magnitude difference. I'd argue that the baseline is complacent workforce, so the argument could have been: do you really want your employees to be complacent?