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#287 — Why Wealth Matters

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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We Are Better Off to Day Than 19 Fifties

We remember the fifties as the golden age of middle class prosperity in america. But by almost any economic measure, we are better off to day than 19 50s. And i think at least one explanation for that is because lot of it was the rise in media, particularly social media,. That just inflated everyone's expectations to incredible degree. Even if your incomes have doubled over the last couple of generations, you're going to feel worse off because your expectations are so wildly inflated.

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