Is it true that average American salary is 55k ? The reason I ask is I see 300-500k TCs here and people don’t seem to be as happy. I feel I’m missing something. Are those Americans happy coz they already own home ? Or is it that being a citizen you feel more “at home” and happier. Maybe they don’t know what others are making so they are content due to ignorance ? Can someone (ideally from Trump camp) enlighten me
Most Americans actually aren’t happy. If you look at surveys you’ll see there’s an alarming number of Americans either living paycheck to paycheck or are chronically in debt. Studies have shown being in a constant state of financial insecurity can be devastating for our mental health. You see people with high TC and unhappy here because there are a lot of insecure incels on Blind and Blind itself can function as a negativity echo chamber. They’re unhappy for different reasons.
Money cant buy you happiness
Yeah but it sure helps
Poverty definitely doesn’t
How do you know they are happy
People in Africa are found often most happiest. Ironically advanced life and knowing more is not proportional to our happiness. Technology for sure made our lives connected and comfortable. However, now we are exposed to more information than we need. We compare ourselves to others, we can easily know what I am missing compare to others. Then stress kick in. Irony
Ignorance is a bliss indeed.
This is one insightful comment. Thank you.
In Waco Texas you can buy a house for $25k, fill up your grocery bag for $20 and have your kids in school for very little money. If two people make $55k each in a household, they’d be very comfortable. The U.S. is rather large. Talking avrg. Income is like talking average income in Europe,, but the pay difference between London and an Eastern European village is hard to compare.
Do the needful and look at TC from white, college educated Americans only and revert back to us. Or just exclude blacks from the statistic. Oh, and add life expectancy. Best: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/23/chicago-latest-news-life-expectancy-rich-poor-inequality
Different things make different people happy. Chasing and achieving higher and higher TC makes me happy.
No food, one problem. Lots of food, lots of problems.
mo food mo problems
I was happy making $15/hr, unhappy making 400-500k/yr, it's life
Explain
When you graduate, you're happy making a pittance since it doesn't seem to matter as long as you have similarly optimistic like-minded people around you, and you think that state will last forever. Then one by one, those people fade from your life and hop onto the rat race, until one day you find yourself alone and are forced to hop on yourself, but then all you're left with is the reward the treadmill gives you, and somehow it's never good enough.
Wall st people make millions and still are not happy.
But my millions make me happy
That's a sorry state of being.