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The article conflates money with income. It could be that people with higher paying jobs find more satisfaction from their work which brings up their happiness
by bko 6y ago
The article conflates money with income. It could be that people with higher paying jobs find more satisfaction from their work which brings up their happiness levels. As a software engineer I am both relatively well paid and find great satisfaction with my work and life in general.
To tease out the difference between work satisfaction and income, I would like to see information on post transfer levels of wealth. Is someone making $30k a year from a salary equally as happy as someone bringing in 15k a year and 15k in transfer payments?
- ggggtez 6y ago> It could be that people with higher paying jobs find more satisfaction from their work So you should expect that happiness levels would remain constant despite paying lower wages for the same job. They don't. So your hypothesis is bunk. Imagine living on $15k a year total. I don't care how much you like your job, you probably wouldn't even be able to live in your city without working a second job at that rate. Now you're working two jobs just to make ends meet... Do you really think you'd be as happy just from the intrinsic joy of sitting at a desk?