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why do people get married and have kids when the statistics say that neither makes people happy?
by nazgulnarsil 17y ago
why do people get married and have kids when the statistics say that neither makes people happy?
- dangoldin 17y agoMy answer would be that statistics work for a population but not the individual case. I feel that getting married and having kids would make me happier - I'm sure others feel the same regardless of what statistics say.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoof course. but that doesn't mean we should ignore it when a large number of people admit that they did X and it didn't make them any happier.
- cpr 17y agoWho says that happiness is the goal in life? Happiness is an occasional side-effect of living a good life, but it'll come and go.
- philwelch 17y agoBecause people are products of evolution.
- shard 17y ago- A sense of purpose - Fulfillment - Biological drive - Life goals - Companionship - Love - To make the people you care about happy Based on success statistics, startups probably don't make a majority of entrepreneurs happy either. But they still do it.