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Thursday, July 29
Purchasing Happiness
I don't think about food ALL the time, you know. Its more like:
60% - food/cooking/eating/drinking coffee
35% - running
5% - philosophy/blogging/politics
So to cover the 5% for today, I present you with an interesting article on happiness relating to wealth (or not relating to it, as it were).
The general line of thought that the article goes into is that if you use your 'wealth' to buy non-tangible items (leisure time, shorter commute, dinners/parties with friends and loved ones, etc), you will rate your satisfaction with life and your happiness as higher than if you use your money to purchase tangible items like a nice car, gadgets, or a huge house. Further, the article talks a lot about traffic and how it really fucks you up mentally, even if you think you're used to it. It presents a few scenarios in which you can choose between 'conspicuous wealth' and 'non-conspicuous wealth'; for example - choose between having a 3000 square foot house and a 10 minute commute, or a 4000 square foot house and an hour commute. Many people don't think of their choices as directly as this, yet this is the trend that is happening with suburbanization of the U.S. It goes on to say that you would quickly get adapted mentally and physically to your housing choice, *small or large, but that choosing the longer commute has physiological and psychological effects that one NEVER can adapt to (mainly because the distraction of commuting is random and out of your control).
*Note: I do not really think of a 3000sq foot house as small. In fact, I think of my current 2200sq ft house as huge! 4000 square feet, now that's just silly.
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