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Originally Posted by loquitur
Does that mean that you think happiness is the relevant thing we should be looking at rather than income (even if you could adjust the income by region to make it comparable)?
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The thread did start with top halves and bottom halves and then moved more into happiness... so it'd make sense to see if data could support the idea that there's an association between income brackets and happiness. Shoot, it'd be even more helpful to compare perceived happiness with the type of happiness that can be documented by behavioral patterns by a psychologist... and then compare that to incomes.
I personally believe that happiness is more important than income because I've found that while material pursuits are fun they're ultimately unfulfilling compared to finding a place in life to he happy. That hardly means that my answer is the only answer, which gets back to my comment regarding subjectivity. Not everyone finds materialism unfulfilling as a core of existence. Some may actually find true happiness in it. That's why I believe in factual data for everyone so they can draw their own subjective conclusions.