income

“80% of the income that people earn is explained by the country of birth and socioeconomic status of their parents”

“So in general if you can increase someone's income by the same percentage, that's worth about the same, no matter how much someone's income is.”

“Kind of like what seems like a lot of money to you as a kid always remains a lot of money to you, even as your income goes up.”

“It shows that happiness increases post 500 K in income or up to 500 K in income. After 500 K, there's sort of these plateaus, and it's not really materially different.”

“What people actually want to get to, what they aspire to, whether they know it or not, is contentment, which is not happiness. It's a different emotion. You'd want to get to a point where you're just like, I'm good. Like, I'm very grateful for everything that …”