Economists calculated that being married has the same effect on happiness as earning an extra hundred thousand dollars a year. Having a friend that you see on a regular basis was worth, i think, 90 thousands dollars a year and talking to your neighbors regularly was worth forty thousand dollars,. So basically cultivating a social cohesion and marriage and friendship and all this stuff seems to have like this sort of outsite. And so basically, if you are in a relatively low income person, but you're married and you have a friend and you talk to your neighbors and you go to a religious service, your level of happiness is the same, basically, as very kind of wealthy people. You've got rich and privileged

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