[roudaki]

You are wasting your breath. You know he thinks most people are lazy and earning below 200k "for a reason."

A guy won Nobel prize proving your quality of life or happiness does not improve above 75k. Thats what you need.

And in IT you dont need to do unpaid overtime or sacrifice your time with family to get to 75k. Everything above that and you are doing it on purpose cause you value money over family and personal relationships. And that is your choice. But that is not healthy and that should not be norm.

And if you need your workers to work 16h a day with unpaid overtime but they are refusing your workers are not lazy you are incompetent CEO. Or just evil level of greedy.

[merrywhether]

That Nobel winner wasn’t trying to buy a house in the Bay Area.

[bumby]

That study is old, but I still suspect there’s a grain of truth that the financial cutoff is lower than many would suspect.

A rough off-the-cuff calculation is that $75k is roughly double the median US income. If the same rough estimate is applied to SV, that’s about $110k. I bet that’s much much lower than many SV/HN would suspect for a happiness threshold. If you can’t find a way to be happy on double the median income, it implies the system is rigged to make an awfully lot of people miserable.

The problem is often not that happiness isn’t possible, but that we compare ourselves to our peer group to calibrate our expectations. As Roosevelt said, comparison is the thief of joy.

[Cd00d]

You sure are projecting a lot about me.

Might want to introspect on that a bit.

I haven't called anyone lazy.