The Off Topic Topic

[Josephus]

You are probably in a small minority of customers there who know exactly what part they need. I went in for a part a couple weeks ago and most of the people in front of me sounded like "I need a part for my car, but I don't know what."

That's me in a nutshell. I know nothing about cars.  I go in for an oil change and $1000 later I have something new I supposedly needed.

[Admiral Yi]

Not this American;  I was much happier with my income at 100K than I was at 50K.  And soon, I shall be sadder. 

Exactly.  You were 25K happier. 

And soon you will be 75K less happy.

[CountDeMoney]

I want my Obama Bucks.

[Ed Anger]

From the NYT:  Americans stop deriving additonal happiness from income once it reaches 75K.

This American does. I was poor once, I want MOAR.

[The Brain]

I was poor once

RIP ignore.

[Ed Anger]

 

[Ideologue]

From the NYT:  Americans stop deriving additonal happiness from income once it reaches 75K.

That's probably not even true, but who cares?  TAX IT ALL.

[garbon]

From the NYT:  Americans stop deriving additonal happiness from income once it reaches 75K.

It makes perfect sense.  Money is only one of many things you need for happiness, and after a certain point, other factors dominate.

No it doesn't.

[jimmy olsen]

From the NYT:  Americans stop deriving additonal happiness from income once it reaches 75K.

Isn't this contingent on cost of living?

In Wyoming the # might be $50,000 and in NYC $100,000

[Eddie Teach]

From the NYT:  Americans stop deriving additonal happiness from income once it reaches 75K.

It makes perfect sense.  Money is only one of many things you need for happiness, and after a certain point, other factors dominate.

No it doesn't.

The quality of the things one acquires doesn't matter so much as the ability to acquire them.

[Ideologue]

One thing that garbon hasn't factored into his analysis is that the additional happiness I derive when you take it and turn it into roads, schools, and heavy bombers is probably a lot more than the happiness they'd get from their extra foie gras money.  He's pretty narrow-minded like that.

[Neil]

Doesn't it make you sad when they take your taxes and use if for things of no military utility whatsoever, like heavy bombers?

[CountDeMoney]

Doesn't it make you sad when they take your taxes and use if for things of no military utility whatsoever, like heavy bombers?

I like it when they use it to offset tax evasion penalties in plea bargains for celebrities.  That's so much more fulfilling, American-style.

[DGuller]

From the NYT:  Americans stop deriving additonal happiness from income once it reaches 75K.

It makes perfect sense.  Money is only one of many things you need for happiness, and after a certain point, other factors dominate.

No it doesn't.

Well, at least your argument is succinct.

[Lettow77]

 I have started writing sonnets again! No regular internet access, lots of fascinating new experiences.

I am in love with my own poetry- I guess it is good someone likes it, at least.

I wrote and nailed to the common bulletin an anonymous sonnet chastising the koreans for their excess noise late into the evening. Everyone was extremely surprised to find it, and the primary suspect for the author is a sensitive new yorker who is almost certainly homosexual. Success!