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That chart doesn't support your claim that higher household income isn't reflected in happiness scores. Multiple factors are at play in those scores. The report
by lucumo 3y ago
That chart doesn't support your claim that higher household income isn't reflected in happiness scores. Multiple factors are at play in those scores. The report mentions a few, but I couldn't find how much each correlates with the self-reported life evaluation.
As a funny BTW, the country used in this thread as a direct comparison, Germany, is indistinguishable from the US in this table.
- dijit 3y agoHis point was that it's not the only factor, and if you read that paper he cited there is a breakdown of exactly what factors contributed to happiness. A social support network was one of the highest ranked, much higher than GDP per capita (the wealth of a nation, which can be used as a proxy for personal income if you have a Gini index to weight it against). Finland comes out well ahead even if you weight it against Gini, and Finnish developers aren't earning more than US folks by a country mile.