There was some study of people from earnings of 15k a year to like.... $TEXAS, whatever. A lot of money, I don't remember how much. And the sample size was either 5k or 100k. I don't remember but it was at least 5. It was a lot of people. And the asked them on a 4, 5 or 7 pt scale a ton of questions about their happiness, mood swings, well-being.
Anyway, past 75k, people don't really get happier with more money. 75k is as much as you need to be just about as happy with the people earning 300k or more.
Not sure if serious.
Objectively, I can tell you that my life would be dramatically happier if I made $300k than at my current salary.
I'm quite serious. Are you sure you'd actually be happier? Like, you'd have more things, but how many things can you do at a time, really? Maybe 75k affords you as much as you can really do at a time, with spending money to change. And will more shit really alter your brain chemically to even have the capacity to be happier? Where will that happiness come from?
Will it make your family less stressful? Your kids less needy? Your life less terminal, finite?
I'm not definitively saying more money won't make you happier, but it seems to me there has to be a limit, and while 75k seems low compared to billionaires, it seems to be the number borne out of a huge national survery, and maybe only seems low to me because I'm living off less than 20k a year.
Yes, I can say with absolute certainty that my life would be better even at $100K, nevermind $300K, and I would be far happier. $300K would mean I could wipe away my total debt load, not counting my house, in 6 months. In another six months I would have set aside a significant portion of my oldest child's college degree cost. In 5 years, I'd have repaired and expanded my house, hired a maid for my sick wife, set aside college for all three children, and begun a plan for a considerable retirement fund. I'd have the stress of making bills completely removed, be able to travel on occasion, and regularly spend on entertainment without worrying over what I was doing to the budget.
$75K is not a lot of money to run a family of 5 on, even here in Texas. It's not the poorhouse, but it's not comfortable.
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She was the only maid on that side of the building. Easily 100 rooms, $10 a room, she probably makes more than I do strictly on god damned tips, assuming her average tip is $10.
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I do not tip anyone for a job I can do myself. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I do, however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverise my own kidney stones.
Good lord, that would be fantastic. Even one month of salary at $300K/yr would be a giant benefit. I could pay off my car and some of my outstanding debt the first month I made that money.
She was the only maid on that side of the building. Easily 100 rooms, $10 a room, she probably makes more than I do strictly on god damned tips, assuming her average tip is $10.
You are greatly overestimating a.) the number of rooms occupied b.) the number of people who tip and c.) how much they leave.
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I do not tip anyone for a job I can do myself. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I do, however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverise my own kidney stones.
I bet your haircuts are worth every penny.
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
I pay $30 for a haircut. She does a good job and I like helping to support an independent single mother.
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So he's been working there for decades pulling high 5 figure wages
nothing more satisfying than a cheap haircut yo
Yes, I can say with absolute certainty that my life would be better even at $100K, nevermind $300K, and I would be far happier. $300K would mean I could wipe away my total debt load, not counting my house, in 6 months. In another six months I would have set aside a significant portion of my oldest child's college degree cost. In 5 years, I'd have repaired and expanded my house, hired a maid for my sick wife, set aside college for all three children, and begun a plan for a considerable retirement fund. I'd have the stress of making bills completely removed, be able to travel on occasion, and regularly spend on entertainment without worrying over what I was doing to the budget.
$75K is not a lot of money to run a family of 5 on, even here in Texas. It's not the poorhouse, but it's not comfortable.
god damn redcoats
Just hook the flow-bee up to the vacuum cleaner.
I do not tip anyone for a job I can do myself. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I do, however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverise my own kidney stones.
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So badass only one shoulder has a different color patch.
Damn grandma, rockin the Krusty the Clown look like a boss.
You are greatly overestimating a.) the number of rooms occupied b.) the number of people who tip and c.) how much they leave.
flowbee is the best and robo is a piece of junk!
I bet your haircuts are worth every penny.
I'm mailing you a Flowbee cutter next Christmas.