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#657 - Erik Angner - An Economist’s Guide To A Happy Life

Modern Wisdom

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The Immediacy of Happiness

There is a fair amount of evidence suggesting that people with kids have more meaning in their lives. Non-financial satisfaction, as people say, increases when you become a parent. The problem is that other kinds of satisfaction go down. Having a child costs a ton of money. And those sacrifices are going to cost you in terms of happiness among other things.

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