#Happiness Economics

[familythings]

Can Money Buy Happiness? New Insights from Wharton Professor Matthew Killingsworth

The never-ending debate about whether money can actually buy happiness has been going on for ages. As society changes and the economy evolves, it’s important to take another look at this question from new angles and modern research. Meet Matthew Killingsworth, a renowned professor at the Wharton School, whose latest research provides fresh and groundbreaking insights into this age-old…

[lenowom]

short malevolent animatic before the new year

[quixoticanarchy]

because my most intense interests throughout my life have tended to seem a little strange to most people, i did - reasonably - conclude that if i started going on tangents or getting excited or knowing too much about odd subjects, whoever i'm talking to would be taken aback or unnerved or unhappy. but i typically wanted to talk about slaughterhouses or free trade agreements or silmarillion rock operas or chemical weapons more than i cared how people reacted, and so i'd do it anyway. which was in its way good, because i've also been able to observe that even if people think you're strange, enough of them will also be interested or at least bemused by you, and sometimes they'll even turn out to also be very keen on the subject and gladly go down the rabbit hole with you. twice in the last two weeks i have let myself start talking with great excitement about supply chains and the people i was talking to also got very excited and revealed they too were obsessed with this to some degree. like yes some people are not going to want to hear what you have to say and tbh some people are going to prefer if you say nothing ever. but i do find that taking the chance and just letting yourself be sincere and not holding back all the time is worth the risk

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

Thinking about how if Shermy Pines. And like, if he is the baby, he’d be born in the 1970s and be 40 by 2012 and he’s already a grandad. He had to be a teen dad in the 80s (after a severe economic recession) and then his kid ended up being a teen parent by 1999 (Which is 8 years before ANOTHER SEVERE ECONOMIC RECESSION LOL)

Also he was born into a pretty broken family, probably rarely if ever saw his brothers. Do you think he ever saw Stanley before he had to start pretending to be Ford? Do you think Ford visited from college??? Because he didn’t seem confident facing his father until he made millions, so like???

And, like, do you think Filbrick and Caryn changed as parents by the time they raised Shermy? Because it seems like a trend that as parents get older they mellow out a bit, so Shermy probably has a completely different experience with their parents then Stan and Ford, and talking to them is just “is this seriously the same parents???” (Imagine the silent resentment that’d cause 😭😭😭)

Personally I headcannon that Shermy had a daughter (Mabel and Dipper’s mom) and not a son like it says on the wiki because c’mon. Can he just have a daughter. Idk why this is important to me but… c’mon. Can he just have a daughter. It just feels right to me.

[fatuismooches]

I FINISHED ALL MY FINALS!! i am so joyous!! also, look at these cute lil dottomeows i made to add to the collection!! (templates - x, x) they are so silly...

Also HEAR ME OUT ON THIS: Sigewinne is Reader and Dottore's daughter, i won't accept criticism. JUST GO LOOK AT THE FANART OF DOTTORE AND SIGEWINNE TOGETHER... IT WILL HEAL YOU FR.

[sweet-potato-42]

foolish and tubbo are a literal perfect duo to team up

they think so similar but are good at different things

they cover each others weaknesses so well

wehn create mdo is added they will go crazy with the opness

btoh are also great at the game

in general they just work together so well like watching them adventure and explore is so fun. They have 1 shared braincell

With any bit they pay along perfectly or when having to lie to someone or trick someone they just work together so well

[dankmemes23]

[thepeopleinpower]

Capitalism and colonialism took community away from us and I want it back. I’ve heard about it from my grandparents and in books and articles online. All throughout history and still today in some parts of the world. People looking out for each other. Regularly. Relentlessly. Neighbors watching each others children, having enough food to share and actually sharing it, being invested in each others lives because everyone has different strengths.

Today community has been strategically painted as a weakness and something to be skeptical of because it is a threat to the very foundations of capitalism. And that’s a real fucking shame because in reality, growing up with community and still having that through adulthood would probably make most people generally happier and less perpetually tired and stressed. It is renewable resilient versatile adaptable self-sustaining and kind of the Ultimate Resource.

[lasseling]

Very concerning

[ophilosoraptoro]

"You will own nothing, and you will be happy" has two meanings - one for the wealthy, and one for the rest of us.

The wealthy rarely own anything. Their cars, real estate, boats, private planes, furniture, appliances - none of it is purchased in their name. It's usually owned by a corporation, an LLC, or a subsidiary within a subsidiary, and loaned to the individual. That way, if they ever have to declare bankruptcy, or if the government confiscates their property for taxes, they have no property to confiscate or sell off, because they don't actually own anything.

For the rest of us, it means everything is rented, or a subscription service, which we have to pay for indefinitely, and we only have access to it as long as we stay on the good side of those in power. You'll be happy, either because you'll be fed brainwashing propaganda to convince you that you are, or all the unhappy people will be eliminated in some way. They could always drug you into happiness.

Don't get me wrong, it's a smart way of protecting your property if you are wealthy. That said, people like Klaus Schwab and George Soros have no interest in letting the peasants in on their secrets. They're content to let you struggle while telling you that there's something wrong with you if you're not happy. They live the capitalist lifestyle, and demand the rest of us live in socialistic serfdom.

[papakhan]

Man I don't think Papa Khan even Wants to be king of the Mojave drug empire

[awesomecooperlove]

😱😱😱

[cicaklah]

I went to a professional webinar (by which I mean I cleaned my kitchen while listening to it on my phone) and wow did I not miss academic bullshit.

Being in industry is so fucking humbling every day to the leftover academic parts of my brain, because the things people SAY about industry are not the problems WITH industry or IN industry but people with no industry experience can just stand up and say shit??? I ended up turning it off after one of the speakers just said something that was almost identical to something I once argued with a professor about like, five years ago, and the interviewer just was like 'wow what a good idea'! It wasn't! It was facile and simple and also ABSOLUTELY opening up an actually a-political process to political WHIMS and also fundamentally misunderstands the entire concept and use-case for the QALY omg flames on the side of my face.

The irony is that you'd think arguing with professors would be the thing that would make you a GOOD academic. Like I once argued with a nobel prize winner at an LSE event because he was Wrong and he didn't argue with me, just made a dismissive comment.

I know I need to go to more therapy for my post-academic-arguing-disorder but every time I get on a call with a client and they say 'we want to do this' and I get to say no, you can't, because its bad, lets do THIS instead is basically therapy enough.

that and the 3x salary. that also helps.

anyway fuck academia, fuck phds, burn the academy down.

[medichamcham]

my stupid ass reading whole ass essays about the mafia lending money to failing businesses and valid reasons on why people approach loan sharks instead of banks solely for the sake of in-depth speculated dynamics between giovanni and rose in the main timeline of the pokemon universe

[lgbtpopcult]

January 2023 WLW Entertainment Rundown

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Movies

Mars One, Netflix on January 5th

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TV

Must Watch: The Last of Us, January 15, 2023, HBO

Ginny & Georgia (Season 2), January 5th, Netflix

Fantasy Island: Season 2, Fox, Jan. 2

NCIS: Hawai'i: Season 2 (2022) 9 p.m., CBS (returning from hiatus), January 2

Home Economics, ABC (returning from hiatus), January 4

How I Met Your Father: Season 2, Hulu, Tuesday, Jan. 24

The Rig, January 6, Prime Video

Hunters, Season Two, January 13, Amazon Prime Video

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Comics, books, music, video games and more

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: Legion of Bats! (2022-) #4, January 17, 2023

Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

January 31, 2023

[faaun]

oh my god ! haha . anyway a bit buzzed perhaps. anyway here's what happened on the date