“As income rises, people’s time use does not appear to shift toward activities that are associated with improved affect.” We are so dumb
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the primary effect of, e.g., falling in love (mutual love, not obsession) is not that it is very distracting. it's that you have introduced a new relationship to your life.
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@literalbanana 's claim that bad experiences have stronger hedonic valence than good experiences. My gut agrees with this but I have my own personality to deal with so I don't trust my gut. -
yeah, that's definitely truthy, i feel like there's a missing lemma in it though
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it’s nothing compared to how people used to misinterpret large lottery winners vs. sudden paralysis
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my correlary claim is that it's lumping these things as disjoint categories that's obfuscatory, erasing what they have in common and leaving people with no cognitive handles to deal with what's going on with them
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just try talking about how fucked up you are because something really good happened to you
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