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Take a village. Everyone earns $100,000 except you. You earn $80,000. How do you feel? Now reverse it. You earn $100,000. Everyone else earns $80,000. How do y
by marquis 13y ago
Take a village. Everyone earns $100,000 except you. You earn $80,000. How do you feel?
Now reverse it. You earn $100,000. Everyone else earns $80,000. How do you feel?
Those base feelings explains consumerism and envy.
- DavidWoof 13y agoI'd rather make $100K than $80K. Period. At those ratios, my neighbors just don't enter into the equation. Now, I might be uncomfortable making $100K when my neighbors made $400K. That's an identifiable difference, and it would really mark me as the poor person in the neighborhood. But a 20% difference from the mean? I wouldn't even notice it.
- consz 13y agoWhat? Does anyone choose the first option over the second one? The second one seems unequivocally better.