The Effect of Income on Happiness

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Happiness is subjective and psychological because it's very present moment rather than like talking about a life You know I can give electrons like all dream happiness and I have to say Pleasure well-being. The more money you make the higher your life satisfaction, but if you look at the effect of income on certain positive affects like lack of stress and not feeling depressed that kind of stuff levels out at about 70,000 a year one day Tamler one day even the subjective measures come apart. Beyond your wildest dreams you won't have can we go back to? the These kinds of cases of people with these sort of Defective night crawler night yeah night crawler.

Special guest Valerie Tiberius joins us to talk about values, well-being, and friendship. What role should reflection play in the good life? What about emotion? How can we make our values more consistent and sustainable? Do we know our friends better than we know ourselves? Plus, are philosophers experts? Experts of what? What are the boundaries of our discipline? And what motivates a gay Mormon to stay in the Church? In the first segment, David and Tamler list a few things they're grateful for on Thanksgiving, including you, the listeners (awwwwww...)

Links

National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation [wikipedia.org]
Valerie Tiberius personal website [sites.google.com]
Tiberius, V. (2012) Cell Phones, iPods, and Subjective Well-Being. In Brey, P., A. Briggle & E. Spence (Eds.). The good life in a technological age. Routledge. [verybadwizards.com]
Desire theories of well-being ( from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Well-Being) [plato.stanford.edu]

Special Guest: Valerie Tiberius.

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