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by known 7y ago
Happiness = Money + Children
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- MaxBarraclough 7y agoI recall Daniel Kahneman concluded the opposite: happiness is largely a function of spending time with people you love (not including children), and life-satisfaction is largely a function of plain old career success.
- milesvp 7y agoyeah, not quite. children actually tend to make you less happy than your peers. at least until they’re old enough to largely fend for themselves. At least in western cultures. I suspect households with more than 2 adults the equation changes significantly. My experience is every child is a pleasure for 2 hours, no matter how badly they are misbehaving. So a household with enough adults to hand off the children may be able to maximize some kind of child additive happiness, though now you have to deal with added adult drama...
- lostlogin 7y agoIf happiness is living with 12 adults and a child, I’ll take hell every time.
- throwawayhhakdl 7y agoHey Arnold seemed alright
- helpPeople 7y agoAncedotes... My baby has made me incredibly happy. But also frustrated and tired. But now that we hit 4 months, it's mostly happy and rarely tired and frustrated.
- lucb1e 7y agoI'm not sure one can make much of a statement about how happy children make you after you've had one for four months...
- hanoz 7y agoSo... Children = Happiness - Money ...I knew it.
- lisper 7y agoIt's not that simple: "Children play a part, too. A recent working paper published by NBER finds that children increase the happiness of European parents, especially for the first ten years. Parents become less happy, however, if having children causes them to encounter financial difficulties. It follows, then, that happiness bounces back for financially-stretched parents once those children become financially independent, but decreases for those parents that enjoyed their children in financial comfort."