Think of money as rights and you will see immediately notice why happiness only increases within a range of equality. Astronomical wealth/rights means master and slaves.
@@behie And then rephrase it because money just not "is" ... its no natural phenomenon. We MAKE money. We as humans. We construct it. We define it. We create it. So... we CREATED money to be freedom. And everything we construct... we can change!
In my personal case I feel this way just because of my work and working in general. I work 8 hours a day and I am so overloaded at work that when I come back home I can't do anything meaningful at all. I think I could deal with a job that didn't make any meaningful impact on anything if I could come back home and invest my energy into something that I love and find meaningful. I can't. I waste my time at work for the money that don't let me have any fulfilling life and the overload wastes my time after work too. I feel like everyone is trying to save money on everything to have a bit more for themselves driving everyone else around crazy. And I work in Finland where the working conditions are one of the best in the world. I can't imagine what people go through in less developed countries. This year I spent 2 month in total being on a sick leave because of depression and I feel like I may need the third one.
@@TheMarketExit 🙏 I work in the healthcare but the experience isn't limited to the field imho. It's mostly always been like this no matter what the job title was. People around me feel the same way and I wonder what's wrong with the system. Thanks for your video, it helped to put some things into perspective.
Why don't you have kids? Have a wife or husband that you pay for them to be with your kids. Teach them about life make the world a bit more like you.. a bit better
@@johney3734 I can't understand if it's irony or not, in case it's not I don't think this world deserves to be better nor do I want to waste any energy on improving something from which I get nothing but more problems, I don't support this always pointless self sacrifice for the sake of the greater good. Also kids are alive beings and I don't want to use them as tools to achieve any goal, this is what got me here and I refuse to repeat this evil act. It's been 30 years of my life and I absolutely haven't seen any good reason to bring anyone here to put them through this meat grinder.
If working is the reason for unhappiness, even tho work has always been a thing, it sounds like the answer would be automation combined with UBI. But even then I wonder how fulfilled people will feel not having an empowering purpose The human psyche is full of contradictions and complications
Very interesting!! This is some high quality, high value stuff! The seven explanations are brilliant, very well researched, *and* rendered/delivered. I'm very glad I just discovered your channel; I subscribed, barely two minutes into the video! The explanations discussed here, gave me an idea; Put together/in correlation, they made me see an eightth, possible explanation...: That maybe, the very lack of "hardship", and focus on greater economic & societal "advancement" (i.e.: further eradicating hardship, in profit of bolstering general "comfort" & "safety") in the "first world"/developed nations, could be cocooning us into purposeless, isolating, overprotective, "bubbles", effectively rendering us similar to overprotected, inexperienced & fearful, highly reactive children...feeling evermore "alone", helpless & incapacitated, in the face of an ever-increasing, global wall of "threats" - thanks to the media... Whereas, the general state of life in developing nations, with its higher incidence of hardship, lesser economic disparity, greater reliance on human connections, & lesser focus/availability, or relevance of "global media horrors" - seemingly closer/more akin to an "older" way of life -, may, in fact, render the people, generally more "used to", desensitized, & also feeling more *able* to deal with the kind of lives they face... I mean; to me, the differences seem to indicate, that the greater incidence of imminent risks to one's life would not only, likely, plant one firmly "in the now" (mentally & emotionnally), but this might also set one "on a par" with some of the more dramatic global news - making it that much *less* shocking -, as well as, finally, offering one the proverbial "backbone" of greater social interconnectivity, to better "weather the storms"/ills and issues, that befall said populations... Effectively turning them into much more "now-focused", less reactive, & generally more "able-feeling" people - which is funny, because, as I'm typing this, I feel like calling them "adults" -...no? Just for clarification; I do mean, just as in the video, on a global scale, as a "macro-view" of global, societal trends. ... Am I the only one to see the possibility of that currently playing out, in our world? Or am I just possibly, a bit *too* critical, lol?!😅🤦🏻♀️
Thanks for you comment! Maybe you have a point. Do you agree with Steven Pinker when he writes that: "a modicum of anxiety may be the price we pay for the uncertainty of freedom."?
Your videos are an embodiment of production excellence and I'm truly astonished that this channel hasn't reached a much wider audience. I much prefer this to Johnny Harris. Keep up the good work!
Wow, thank you! That's extremely kind. If you want to, you can help me out by sharing my videos with your friends, colleagues etc. :) I'm uploading a new essay very very soon!
A logarithmic transformation or logit function is not a statistical "trick." It is in fact very common and for problems that lie in a range from 0 to 1 it actually makes a lot of sense. Transformations are not tricks; not all relationships are linear. Another thing that i noticed was that there was a lot of variance in the graphs which suggests that whatever the relationship it is quite weak at all income levels. Also, while I do not think it is a problem in this case, a very common trap people fall into is looking at two things increasing or decreasing over time and immediately assuming a relationship. Regardless, still a great video and I think you still get a lot of things right.
Great comment. I also think is quite misleading to say the log transformation is a "trick". In this case happiness is capped at 10 so the log transformation makes sense.
I think it's particularly pernicious in this case because we're talking about a book marketed towards a general audience, not a journal article. I don't think most people reading this book are going to check for things like this, or even know what a logarithmic scale means.
Thanks for your comment! I do agree with you, in general. But I stand by calling this particular use of log scale a "trick", here's why: Using a logarithmic scale for comparing wealth across countries significantly underrepresents the vast disparities in wealth and this method becomes particularly misleading when presented to general audiences who may not realize the scale is compressed. As a result, the substantial economic differences, especially at the extreme ends of the wealth spectrum, seem less severe than they are in reality. I do recognize the value of log transformations in various statistical analyses, but I don't think it's appropriate in the case of wealth comparison. We need to be mindful what effects the choices of statistical representations may have for public perceptions. For instance, during the pandemic, one could argue that using logarithmic scales to visualize the spread of the virus would have been appropriate. However, most media outlets refrained from this approach. The reason is that logarithmic scales, which are not commonly understood by the general public, could have conveyed a misleading impression of the virus's rate of spread.
@@TheMarketExitIt seems to me that the logaritmic scale is especially appropriate for wealth. If you use a linear scale, than Bill Gates would be just as happy if he finds a thousand euros as I would be. A logaritmic scale would mean that I and Bill Gates would both be just as happy with a 10% increase in wealth, which seems far more reasonable.
@@MarijnMan I hear you. But my take is exactly the same, but from another angle. Just because Bill Gates wouldn't be excited about a 1,000 EUR bill, the overwhelming vast majority of the world would be extremely excited for that bill. A logarithmic scale hides how much good the excess wealth could do for the ones who have less. I'd be happy to hear what you think of that view. Cheers!
Impressive video! Life's but a fleeting moment on this earth. Let's shed needless worry, savoring nature and exploring diverse cultures. Traveling to embrace novelty signifies the luxury of leisure, a privilege reserved for the fortunate with means. Do you believe happiness is a goal or more of a by product? Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) once said “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Aka. We need the freedom to be ourselves! In the West, We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about?
Thanks for insightful thoughts. (Most days) I agree with the Buddhist view that pursuing happiness as a goal doesn't really make sense, as happiness comes and goes, regardless of our wealth. Why do you believe we keep striving for even more material wealth even though we already have more than we need?
Life has become unreasonably complicated . Having been very ambitious as a young person , I can say doing that with kids is impossible with out ruining the close bonds of friends and family .Money seems to drive every thought and every decision .Survival is taking over all priorities . We all are mostly working just to sleep and do it again .
One work-related factor that has not been addressed is how much our lives revolve around work and career and how other aspects that contribute to a healthy life are left aside. Sustaining a high standard of living is expensive, and to pay this price we need to dedicate ourselves from a very early age to studying in an increasingly competitive way to enter an extremely demanding work environment, along the way things like family, friends, relationships, meaningful leisure, and mental health are left aside as secondary aspects of a person's life.
This video speaks volumes. I recognize the loneliness a lot among people I met and I often go out just to remove technology from my life so I can connect with people gow I used to as a child and teen. It is so hard finding a valuable friendship these days. Much might be technology but it might be economy inequality and such as well. Good video!
What about another factor: By becoming richer, we receive the freedom to inspect us and our world more carefully - thereby coming into contact with fears that would otherwise be suppressed. In other words, we can afford to stop working (What may be called freedom of regression). However, I admit that it doesn't go well with the data that rich people seem happier overall. Anyways, I would be interested if someone wants to share thoughts about this.
Important topic and very interesting insights (as always). One thing I thought of - do you believe there’s still a difference in how less rich countries talk openly about mental healt, and that there might be a lot of unknown numbers that affect the data in that sense?
Thank you for a very nice video! Moving to Sweden from post soviet country, one of my cultural shock was how much everyone speaks about importance of gdp and economic growth, while there is no developed things for ordinary people. I mean, why do I care that Sweden is very rich, while I even can not buy food after 23.00 or order it to my place since delivery only exists in the city center. Banks are just a joke. Such things are just ridiculous. I think that one of the philosophical reasons is that people are crazy abut being exceptional and ambitious. I believe that we need to think and care more about each other.
Thanks for your comment. I know, the more you think about it, the weirder you realize it is that we obsess so much over GDP and economic growth. You are right, we need to think and care more about each other. What would it take for that to happen?
@@TheMarketExit Teach empathy ? As a MD I took courses on communication and I have the feeling that these kind of softskills can be enhanced. Same as physical performance, we are not born the same but almost everyone can work on upgrading these skills.
From the urban planning channels I watch, similar results have been shown to correlate from the existence of car dependency and suburbia. From the epidemiology channels I watch, similar results have been shown to correlate from the existence of the western diet (low fibre, low fat, high fructose diet). I'd be interested to see the cross-section of these three subjects and how they correlate towards the collapse of mental health in the modern age. Modern economics, modern diet, and modern planning really went into high gear in the 1960s and 1970s -- so, there's likely something there.
People tend to feel happier when the wealth is growing. Wealth and happiness correlates, but the happiness does not necessarily improve when the wealth growth is stagnated. For the negative growth of economy, many people feel depressed, even though the absolute wealth level is much better than 50 years ago. It is impossible to grow rapidly in the long term, but the most important policy is not to make things worse, rather than improving further. Improving further is great, but it does not make sense to take too much risk that can make things worse.
But you know that "growth" of GDP is something rather new? Human exist for 300.000 years. Economical and technological growth - and especially medical enhancements - are happening only for a few centuries. You conclusion would be: Human race was unhappy for hundreds of thousand years 😲 And what sort of "growth" do you exactly mean? The GDP still grows. Even the life expectation in some countries still is growing (in USA not for certain reasons). Medical enhancements also go on. "Growth" without saying WHAT is growing... doesn't mean anything.
All of it can really be traced back to economic reasons. I mean…the internet is used to advertise and sell people shit, to get them clicking and watching! It could be used to teach, educate, facilitate innovation and community but it does the opposite because it’s been commodified so a few people can get rich. It’s ALL economic. Capitalism infects everything
Tbf using a logarithmic scale makes perfect sense in this case. Of course happiness does not increase by the same amount going from 50k$ to 100k$ as it does from 1mio$ to 1.050mio$
First sentence is a claim without the slightest support. WHY does it make "perfect sense"? And fun fact for you what studies imply: There are a lot people who experience a doubling of income... yet don't get happier at all. Some even fall in depressions. Although other life circumstances don't change. There are many wealthy people who see in their direct environment other wealthy people being unhappy and quite don't understand it. The easy answer is: For many people money doesn't give you meaning. For many it does. But for many not. If you don't want to notice the complexity of our societies... you won't come close to the real world that much.
@@BoothTheGrey It makes perfect sense because the impact on lifestyle and financial security of those extra 50k I mentioned is significantly smaller if you already have a million dollars. A logarithmic scale captures that effect better than a linear scale. While criticizing my comment, you also failed to provide any reason for why happiness should scale linearly with wealth. What's your argument there? Of course there is a point where an increase in wealth has no impact on your life anymore. However that point is likely substantially higher than a million dollars. You are also confusing wealth with income. They might be correlated, but are two very different things. You can have a very high income, but no financial security at all due to overspending. I don't doubt that people can be unhappy with significant amounts of wealth. However money buys you freedom and independence. And while that alone is not enough for a happy life, it certainly won't hurt. I never argued that money is equally important for everyone. I simply stated that using a logarithmic scale is probably the right thing to do in this case.
@@mario7501 No - the logarithmic scale would one capture it better when it would be true for ALL income levels. This would mean someone with 2 dollar a day would be significant happier than with 1 dollar a day. Or with 500 dollar a month significant happier than with 250. This is not the case. Or if so... you have TO SHOW IT WITH DATA! Just to compare a 50k enhancement of the one with 50k and the one with 1 million IS BY FAR not enough to support that logarithmic scale is "better". And no - going from 1 to 10 million doesn't automatically mean becoming happier - no matter how much you assume that. Cause there is very little data we have from the top 1% in the wealthiest nations. These people usually don't wanna be part of sociological or psychological studies. You don't care for real data. You just wanna support your bias. This is kind of sad cause you really seem to be an educated person. But holding on to the own ideology probably is more important than any statistical education. That's why economy still is not a good science. To much ideology in there.
Sorry, the logarithmic scale is not a trick. Most of the processes in life (physics, chemistry, biology) are exponential. Sorry, but I don't want to go back to the 60s with more diseases and with no car per person not per 2 people. I don't want to spend time doing dishes by hand. Sorry, but no sorry. Happiness is related to a future picture, the future opportunities. When you were young in college you had the whole life ahead of you and, yes, you were happier. When you achieve what you dream about it makes you happy for a while, but to continue to be happier you need new dreams and hopes that you can achieve now. If you didn't achieve even what you were dreaming about when you were young you are unhappy. It is easier to achieve something when you are on the bottom but with low-hanging fruits everywhere. It is harder when you are on the top, it is even harder when you are getting older. Yes, you need to adjust and it is a difficult psychological problem. Still, it doesn't mean that money doesn't help you here. YES, when you have money to survive while looking for new inspiration you are damn much happier, rather than working hard in a low-paid job hating every day of your life!
"Hunter gatherers only had to plan a few days in the future" Thats simply not true, maybe im some regions, but many groups of hunter gatherers would migrate seasonally, and the planning and understanding of seasonality and when they needed to be where for the harvest season of certain food sources was vitally important long before agriculture. Agriculture and more sedentary lifestyles made seasonality even more important, since being a farmer is being in tune with the seasonality of your crops, and maintaining surplus in case the following years were less productive is only a little bit of a further time horizon than planning to travel hundreds of miles under a tight schedule for when you must arrive and then move to the next place.
Because it does not matter if the country's wealth grows if the 'wealth growth' comes from 8 billionaires - because then the reality is that the rest of the country suffers.
The answer to happiness is mindset People who are happy being poor will be happy being rich. People who constantly want more will never be satisfied and always feel miserable
I have noticed the US has been mentally ill as of late. And as my country becomes richer and the standard of living becomes more expensive. I see that the mental health of my nstion is getting worse.
I never felt more poor than when I made $133K last year. All the wasted hours on OT could've been used by me to pursue hobbies or self-improvement. All I did was just squeak into a higher tax bracket to have my extra effort be eviscerated by taxes and deductions.
"The richer a nation becomes, the higher levels of *diagnosed* mental health problems we have". Diagnosis is severely lacking in undeveloped countries, compared with *over diagnosis* in developed countries. The connection you show between wealth and mental illness is therefore *unfounded*.
Wrong - first you have to find data to support your claims. You can claim anything. I am sure there are a lot religious folks who search for correlations with lack of religion. Sociological context is not rather easy to show. And you can be very critical about the data and conclusions that is shown here. But to directly throw in an own conclusion that is based on even worse data... is not a good way to come closer to reality.
Nah, it is the expensive housing and mortgages. One can work to old days then become homeless. That is the true span of worry. For this unfair situation most of the wages are now unfairly low. This takes away lots of pleasure and denies a large majority to have healthy families, even on dual income.
But how does it come that even in material wealthy families a lot people get depressed and have anxiety? They DO have homes. They are paid! They don't have unfairly low income. Sometimes even unfairly high income. Yes - being poor makes ill. This is what this video ALSO clearly says. But it's important that you can notice how poor you are by comparison to what it would mean not being poor. And the sad part is that even many not poor people are unhappy.
Isn't it a matter of developing greater appreciation for what we do know and have? Have made long term investments here that have paid off well indeed.
It's the problem.. all western nations have both parents work. Kids are to expensive and we don't spend lots of time with them.. what's the meening of life with out reproducing? Gluteney
I fucking hate the lie that everything is getting better. I felt so fucking gaslighted by it for such a long time, until I've seen it debunked with actual, honest data. And I fucking hate Pinker.
This channel should be so much more popular based on the edits alone
Yes, I'm surprised it isn't bigger than it is.
I'm captivated by the beautiful way the video is edited. The soundtrack fits so well with the narrative. This is top notch video production
Think of money as rights and you will see immediately notice why happiness only increases within a range of equality. Astronomical wealth/rights means master and slaves.
Money is freedom points in this society
So why are women so unhappy now that they have all their rights, freedoms, and means of acquiring their own money?
@@behie And then rephrase it because money just not "is" ... its no natural phenomenon. We MAKE money. We as humans. We construct it. We define it. We create it.
So... we CREATED money to be freedom. And everything we construct... we can change!
I love the production quality of your videos! Great video and great topic.
The way he explains economic growth is kinda like a flex. Reminds me of the dudes who can only talk about how much money they have than you
In my personal case I feel this way just because of my work and working in general. I work 8 hours a day and I am so overloaded at work that when I come back home I can't do anything meaningful at all. I think I could deal with a job that didn't make any meaningful impact on anything if I could come back home and invest my energy into something that I love and find meaningful. I can't. I waste my time at work for the money that don't let me have any fulfilling life and the overload wastes my time after work too. I feel like everyone is trying to save money on everything to have a bit more for themselves driving everyone else around crazy. And I work in Finland where the working conditions are one of the best in the world. I can't imagine what people go through in less developed countries. This year I spent 2 month in total being on a sick leave because of depression and I feel like I may need the third one.
Thank you for sharing. I'm sad to hear that. You are not alone. What industry do you work in?
@@TheMarketExit 🙏 I work in the healthcare but the experience isn't limited to the field imho. It's mostly always been like this no matter what the job title was. People around me feel the same way and I wonder what's wrong with the system. Thanks for your video, it helped to put some things into perspective.
Why don't you have kids? Have a wife or husband that you pay for them to be with your kids. Teach them about life make the world a bit more like you.. a bit better
@@johney3734 I can't understand if it's irony or not, in case it's not I don't think this world deserves to be better nor do I want to waste any energy on improving something from which I get nothing but more problems, I don't support this always pointless self sacrifice for the sake of the greater good. Also kids are alive beings and I don't want to use them as tools to achieve any goal, this is what got me here and I refuse to repeat this evil act. It's been 30 years of my life and I absolutely haven't seen any good reason to bring anyone here to put them through this meat grinder.
If working is the reason for unhappiness, even tho work has always been a thing, it sounds like the answer would be automation combined with UBI.
But even then I wonder how fulfilled people will feel not having an empowering purpose
The human psyche is full of contradictions and complications
Very interesting!! This is some high quality, high value stuff! The seven explanations are brilliant, very well researched, *and* rendered/delivered. I'm very glad I just discovered your channel; I subscribed, barely two minutes into the video!
The explanations discussed here, gave me an idea; Put together/in correlation, they made me see an eightth, possible explanation...: That maybe, the very lack of "hardship", and focus on greater economic & societal "advancement" (i.e.: further eradicating hardship, in profit of bolstering general "comfort" & "safety") in the "first world"/developed nations, could be cocooning us into purposeless, isolating, overprotective, "bubbles", effectively rendering us similar to overprotected, inexperienced & fearful, highly reactive children...feeling evermore "alone", helpless & incapacitated, in the face of an ever-increasing, global wall of "threats" - thanks to the media...
Whereas, the general state of life in developing nations, with its higher incidence of hardship, lesser economic disparity, greater reliance on human connections, & lesser focus/availability, or relevance of "global media horrors" - seemingly closer/more akin to an "older" way of life -, may, in fact, render the people, generally more "used to", desensitized, & also feeling more *able* to deal with the kind of lives they face... I mean; to me, the differences seem to indicate, that the greater incidence of imminent risks to one's life would not only, likely, plant one firmly "in the now" (mentally & emotionnally), but this might also set one "on a par" with some of the more dramatic global news - making it that much *less* shocking -, as well as, finally, offering one the proverbial "backbone" of greater social interconnectivity, to better "weather the storms"/ills and issues, that befall said populations... Effectively turning them into much more "now-focused", less reactive, & generally more "able-feeling" people - which is funny, because, as I'm typing this, I feel like calling them "adults" -...no?
Just for clarification; I do mean, just as in the video, on a global scale, as a "macro-view" of global, societal trends.
... Am I the only one to see the possibility of that currently playing out, in our world? Or am I just possibly, a bit *too* critical, lol?!😅🤦🏻♀️
Edit: To readers; Sorry about the wordiness.🙏 I just naturally tend to be quite passionate about such subjects.☝️🤔🤓
Thanks for you comment! Maybe you have a point. Do you agree with Steven Pinker when he writes that: "a modicum of anxiety may be the price we pay for the uncertainty of freedom."?
Your videos are an embodiment of production excellence and I'm truly astonished that this channel hasn't reached a much wider audience. I much prefer this to Johnny Harris. Keep up the good work!
Wow, thank you! That's extremely kind. If you want to, you can help me out by sharing my videos with your friends, colleagues etc. :)
I'm uploading a new essay very very soon!
A logarithmic transformation or logit function is not a statistical "trick." It is in fact very common and for problems that lie in a range from 0 to 1 it actually makes a lot of sense. Transformations are not tricks; not all relationships are linear. Another thing that i noticed was that there was a lot of variance in the graphs which suggests that whatever the relationship it is quite weak at all income levels. Also, while I do not think it is a problem in this case, a very common trap people fall into is looking at two things increasing or decreasing over time and immediately assuming a relationship. Regardless, still a great video and I think you still get a lot of things right.
Great comment. I also think is quite misleading to say the log transformation is a "trick". In this case happiness is capped at 10 so the log transformation makes sense.
I think it's particularly pernicious in this case because we're talking about a book marketed towards a general audience, not a journal article. I don't think most people reading this book are going to check for things like this, or even know what a logarithmic scale means.
Thanks for your comment! I do agree with you, in general. But I stand by calling this particular use of log scale a "trick", here's why: Using a logarithmic scale for comparing wealth across countries significantly underrepresents the vast disparities in wealth and this method becomes particularly misleading when presented to general audiences who may not realize the scale is compressed. As a result, the substantial economic differences, especially at the extreme ends of the wealth spectrum, seem less severe than they are in reality.
I do recognize the value of log transformations in various statistical analyses, but I don't think it's appropriate in the case of wealth comparison. We need to be mindful what effects the choices of statistical representations may have for public perceptions. For instance, during the pandemic, one could argue that using logarithmic scales to visualize the spread of the virus would have been appropriate. However, most media outlets refrained from this approach. The reason is that logarithmic scales, which are not commonly understood by the general public, could have conveyed a misleading impression of the virus's rate of spread.
@@TheMarketExitIt seems to me that the logaritmic scale is especially appropriate for wealth. If you use a linear scale, than Bill Gates would be just as happy if he finds a thousand euros as I would be. A logaritmic scale would mean that I and Bill Gates would both be just as happy with a 10% increase in wealth, which seems far more reasonable.
@@MarijnMan I hear you. But my take is exactly the same, but from another angle. Just because Bill Gates wouldn't be excited about a 1,000 EUR bill, the overwhelming vast majority of the world would be extremely excited for that bill. A logarithmic scale hides how much good the excess wealth could do for the ones who have less. I'd be happy to hear what you think of that view. Cheers!
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Impressive video! Life's but a fleeting moment on this earth. Let's shed needless worry, savoring nature and exploring diverse cultures. Traveling to embrace novelty signifies the luxury of leisure, a privilege reserved for the fortunate with means. Do you believe happiness is a goal or more of a by product? Franklin Roosevelt (FDR) once said “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Aka. We need the freedom to be ourselves! In the West, We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about?
Thanks for insightful thoughts. (Most days) I agree with the Buddhist view that pursuing happiness as a goal doesn't really make sense, as happiness comes and goes, regardless of our wealth. Why do you believe we keep striving for even more material wealth even though we already have more than we need?
@@TheMarketExit mimetic behaviors ?
We are spoiled with quality videos like this. Kudos to you. Cheers.
Life has become unreasonably complicated . Having been very ambitious as a young person , I can say doing that with kids is impossible with out ruining the close bonds of friends and family .Money seems to drive every thought and every decision .Survival is taking over all priorities . We all are mostly working just to sleep and do it again .
Amen, States here, 7k in bills, just to keep it going with kids. Nothing extravagant. It's constant money stress
One work-related factor that has not been addressed is how much our lives revolve around work and career and how other aspects that contribute to a healthy life are left aside. Sustaining a high standard of living is expensive, and to pay this price we need to dedicate ourselves from a very early age to studying in an increasingly competitive way to enter an extremely demanding work environment, along the way things like family, friends, relationships, meaningful leisure, and mental health are left aside as secondary aspects of a person's life.
top quality!!!
Wow Andres, det är såå bra👏🏻
This channel is truly underrated
Another great video och relevant topic!
This video speaks volumes. I recognize the loneliness a lot among people I met and I often go out just to remove technology from my life so I can connect with people gow I used to as a child and teen. It is so hard finding a valuable friendship these days. Much might be technology but it might be economy inequality and such as well. Good video!
Can’t believe this only has a few thousand views. Amazing work dude!
Thank you very much! You can help me out by sharing it with a friend or two :)
hope you grow big on YT
I just wanna say Andres, the passion you display for production and editing is so beautiful! Every video gets better
Thank you from France Andres, I appreciate your work. Le fond et la forme as we say in french !
Merci beaucoup -- or tusen tack, as we say in Sweden :) That's very kind of you. Any suggestions on topics I should do videos about?
Thanks!
great video as always...👍
What about another factor: By becoming richer, we receive the freedom to inspect us and our world more carefully - thereby coming into contact with fears that would otherwise be suppressed. In other words, we can afford to stop working (What may be called freedom of regression).
However, I admit that it doesn't go well with the data that rich people seem happier overall.
Anyways, I would be interested if someone wants to share thoughts about this.
Important topic and very interesting insights (as always). One thing I thought of - do you believe there’s still a difference in how less rich countries talk openly about mental healt, and that there might be a lot of unknown numbers that affect the data in that sense?
no money no problem
No way, you got Roland Paulsen to your channel? 😮
This was awesome. You deserve more views! Shared!
wow Andres, really cool channel you have!! Terrific and many greetings from Brazil!!!
Hey, thanks! I hope Brazil is pleasant and I appreciate the kind greetings.
Quality content+quality visuals=subscription 😂
Thank you for a very nice video! Moving to Sweden from post soviet country, one of my cultural shock was how much everyone speaks about importance of gdp and economic growth, while there is no developed things for ordinary people. I mean, why do I care that Sweden is very rich, while I even can not buy food after 23.00 or order it to my place since delivery only exists in the city center. Banks are just a joke. Such things are just ridiculous. I think that one of the philosophical reasons is that people are crazy abut being exceptional and ambitious. I believe that we need to think and care more about each other.
Thanks for your comment. I know, the more you think about it, the weirder you realize it is that we obsess so much over GDP and economic growth. You are right, we need to think and care more about each other. What would it take for that to happen?
@@TheMarketExit Teach empathy ? As a MD I took courses on communication and I have the feeling that these kind of softskills can be enhanced. Same as physical performance, we are not born the same but almost everyone can work on upgrading these skills.
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From the urban planning channels I watch, similar results have been shown to correlate from the existence of car dependency and suburbia. From the epidemiology channels I watch, similar results have been shown to correlate from the existence of the western diet (low fibre, low fat, high fructose diet). I'd be interested to see the cross-section of these three subjects and how they correlate towards the collapse of mental health in the modern age. Modern economics, modern diet, and modern planning really went into high gear in the 1960s and 1970s -- so, there's likely something there.
People tend to feel happier when the wealth is growing. Wealth and happiness correlates, but the happiness does not necessarily improve when the wealth growth is stagnated. For the negative growth of economy, many people feel depressed, even though the absolute wealth level is much better than 50 years ago. It is impossible to grow rapidly in the long term, but the most important policy is not to make things worse, rather than improving further. Improving further is great, but it does not make sense to take too much risk that can make things worse.
But you know that "growth" of GDP is something rather new? Human exist for 300.000 years. Economical and technological growth - and especially medical enhancements - are happening only for a few centuries.
You conclusion would be: Human race was unhappy for hundreds of thousand years 😲
And what sort of "growth" do you exactly mean? The GDP still grows. Even the life expectation in some countries still is growing (in USA not for certain reasons). Medical enhancements also go on.
"Growth" without saying WHAT is growing... doesn't mean anything.
And why do you connect those mental issue numbers with economic and wealth instead of Online life and losses of inter-human connection?
All of it can really be traced back to economic reasons. I mean…the internet is used to advertise and sell people shit, to get them clicking and watching! It could be used to teach, educate, facilitate innovation and community but it does the opposite because it’s been commodified so a few people can get rich. It’s ALL economic. Capitalism infects everything
Tbf using a logarithmic scale makes perfect sense in this case.
Of course happiness does not increase by the same amount going from 50k$ to 100k$ as it does from 1mio$ to 1.050mio$
First sentence is a claim without the slightest support. WHY does it make "perfect sense"?
And fun fact for you what studies imply: There are a lot people who experience a doubling of income... yet don't get happier at all. Some even fall in depressions. Although other life circumstances don't change. There are many wealthy people who see in their direct environment other wealthy people being unhappy and quite don't understand it. The easy answer is: For many people money doesn't give you meaning. For many it does. But for many not.
If you don't want to notice the complexity of our societies... you won't come close to the real world that much.
@@BoothTheGrey It makes perfect sense because the impact on lifestyle and financial security of those extra 50k I mentioned is significantly smaller if you already have a million dollars. A logarithmic scale captures that effect better than a linear scale. While criticizing my comment, you also failed to provide any reason for why happiness should scale linearly with wealth. What's your argument there?
Of course there is a point where an increase in wealth has no impact on your life anymore. However that point is likely substantially higher than a million dollars. You are also confusing wealth with income. They might be correlated, but are two very different things. You can have a very high income, but no financial security at all due to overspending.
I don't doubt that people can be unhappy with significant amounts of wealth. However money buys you freedom and independence. And while that alone is not enough for a happy life, it certainly won't hurt. I never argued that money is equally important for everyone. I simply stated that using a logarithmic scale is probably the right thing to do in this case.
@@mario7501 No - the logarithmic scale would one capture it better when it would be true for ALL income levels.
This would mean someone with 2 dollar a day would be significant happier than with 1 dollar a day. Or with 500 dollar a month significant happier than with 250.
This is not the case. Or if so... you have TO SHOW IT WITH DATA!
Just to compare a 50k enhancement of the one with 50k and the one with 1 million IS BY FAR not enough to support that logarithmic scale is "better".
And no - going from 1 to 10 million doesn't automatically mean becoming happier - no matter how much you assume that. Cause there is very little data we have from the top 1% in the wealthiest nations. These people usually don't wanna be part of sociological or psychological studies.
You don't care for real data. You just wanna support your bias. This is kind of sad cause you really seem to be an educated person. But holding on to the own ideology probably is more important than any statistical education. That's why economy still is not a good science. To much ideology in there.
Truth...
Affluenza!
"I got mine, fk everyone and everything else" mantra has been voted for the last 5 decades.
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Sorry, the logarithmic scale is not a trick. Most of the processes in life (physics, chemistry, biology) are exponential.
Sorry, but I don't want to go back to the 60s with more diseases and with no car per person not per 2 people. I don't want to spend time doing dishes by hand. Sorry, but no sorry.
Happiness is related to a future picture, the future opportunities. When you were young in college you had the whole life ahead of you and, yes, you were happier. When you achieve what you dream about it makes you happy for a while, but to continue to be happier you need new dreams and hopes that you can achieve now. If you didn't achieve even what you were dreaming about when you were young you are unhappy.
It is easier to achieve something when you are on the bottom but with low-hanging fruits everywhere. It is harder when you are on the top, it is even harder when you are getting older. Yes, you need to adjust and it is a difficult psychological problem. Still, it doesn't mean that money doesn't help you here. YES, when you have money to survive while looking for new inspiration you are damn much happier, rather than working hard in a low-paid job hating every day of your life!
in usa, new medical graduates choose their specialty based only on money those specialties bring a year
"Hunter gatherers only had to plan a few days in the future"
Thats simply not true, maybe im some regions, but many groups of hunter gatherers would migrate seasonally, and the planning and understanding of seasonality and when they needed to be where for the harvest season of certain food sources was vitally important long before agriculture. Agriculture and more sedentary lifestyles made seasonality even more important, since being a farmer is being in tune with the seasonality of your crops, and maintaining surplus in case the following years were less productive is only a little bit of a further time horizon than planning to travel hundreds of miles under a tight schedule for when you must arrive and then move to the next place.
It's a very Mad World.
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I use premiere pro for editing and after effects for graphcs :)
Because it does not matter if the country's wealth grows if the 'wealth growth' comes from 8 billionaires - because then the reality is that the rest of the country suffers.
It looks like being poor has nothing to do with happiness, but being rich prevents you from being unhappy… on average.
The answer to happiness is mindset
People who are happy being poor will be happy being rich. People who constantly want more will never be satisfied and always feel miserable
I have noticed the US has been mentally ill as of late. And as my country becomes richer and the standard of living becomes more expensive. I see that the mental health of my nstion is getting worse.
I never felt more poor than when I made $133K last year. All the wasted hours on OT could've been used by me to pursue hobbies or self-improvement. All I did was just squeak into a higher tax bracket to have my extra effort be eviscerated by taxes and deductions.
"The richer a nation becomes, the higher levels of *diagnosed* mental health problems we have". Diagnosis is severely lacking in undeveloped countries, compared with *over diagnosis* in developed countries. The connection you show between wealth and mental illness is therefore *unfounded*.
Wrong - first you have to find data to support your claims. You can claim anything. I am sure there are a lot religious folks who search for correlations with lack of religion.
Sociological context is not rather easy to show. And you can be very critical about the data and conclusions that is shown here. But to directly throw in an own conclusion that is based on even worse data... is not a good way to come closer to reality.
Nah, it is the expensive housing and mortgages. One can work to old days then become homeless. That is the true span of worry. For this unfair situation most of the wages are now unfairly low. This takes away lots of pleasure and denies a large majority to have healthy families, even on dual income.
But how does it come that even in material wealthy families a lot people get depressed and have anxiety? They DO have homes. They are paid! They don't have unfairly low income. Sometimes even unfairly high income.
Yes - being poor makes ill. This is what this video ALSO clearly says. But it's important that you can notice how poor you are by comparison to what it would mean not being poor.
And the sad part is that even many not poor people are unhappy.
Well at least im getting more happy, i dont have that high dreams i just want my first paycheck from a job.
Isn't it a matter of developing greater appreciation for what we do know and have? Have made long term investments here that have paid off well indeed.
Yes, I think research has shown that people can increase their overall wellbeing by fostering gratitude, so I think you're right!
Capitalism isn't the answer.
It's the problem.. all western nations have both parents work. Kids are to expensive and we don't spend lots of time with them.. what's the meening of life with out reproducing? Gluteney
The systems we see are not the true Free Market Capitalism anyway. This corrupted mutation is just Neo-Feudalism
@@johney3734 So offer economic incentives to families (having a government worker raise your kids isn’t it)
@@johney3734 Also sounds like women working isn’t turning out how they thought. I thought they wanted to work and not raise kids?
@@Johnnysmithy24 well said.. in the old days they would give big tax breaks for dependents.. now it's a much more cruel life
People stopped going to houses of worship.
I fucking hate the lie that everything is getting better. I felt so fucking gaslighted by it for such a long time, until I've seen it debunked with actual, honest data. And I fucking hate Pinker.
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