Joe Pinsker
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1,247 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard Jan 2025
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The things that help people live longer are pretty well established.
Eat better, sleep more, exercise more, spend time with friends.
So you can make improvements on those fronts without ever spending a dime, but you can also spend in a smart way to level up on each of those.
A simple way to say it is that money buys a lot of stuff that helps you live longer.
Healthcare is a big one, of course, buying healthy food, maybe a gym membership.
But it's also important to recognize how not everything about the relationship between money and longevity has to do with individual level spending decisions.
Neighborhoods with richer residents tend to have less violence and less pollution plus better parks and schools.
So it's partially about what money buys and it's partially about your communities and surroundings that a certain amount of money unlocks.
It's really about how to use money in a strategic way.
The things that help people live longer are pretty well established, and they're not entirely shocking.
Eat better, sleep more, exercise more, spend time with friends.
So you can make improvements on those fronts without ever spending a dime, but you can also spend in a smart way to level up on each of those.
It is the case that a higher income and a higher net worth is correlated with living longer.
But when you look at something like income, you can see that there are kind of diminishing returns here.
On average, somebody with a household income of $14,000 would live about 10 fewer months than someone making $20,000.
And that same 10-month gap exists at a higher level of income between incomes of roughly $160,000 and $225,000 and $225,000 and $1.95 million.
So that was a lot of numbers.
But basically, the 10-month gap in lifespan, it starts to require sort of more and more money the more money you make.
Those numbers come from a 2016 study that used 2012 inflation-adjusted dollars, but that can give you a sense of the scale of the diminishing returns here.
The more obvious ways to think about this are to buy things that will help you live a healthier life, like a gym membership or maybe blackout curtains that help you sleep better.
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