Joe Pinsker
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1,247 appearances
30 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard Jan 2025
Joe Pinsker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But there are diminishing returns here, as I described in that numerical example a minute ago.
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And there's no magic number here, meaning that researchers don't currently agree on whether there's a point where happiness stops rising with income or whether such a point exists at all.
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We really just kind of need more millionaires to fill out surveys about their happiness and let us know how they're all feeling.
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Certainly.
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I think that's a big theme here.
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As I was saying a moment ago, there's sort of this cluster of things that affect our happiness and not a single thing like money.
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And you can think of this just almost intuitively because if you are thinking about how money –
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helps happiness.
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It's giving you more choices.
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It's affording you more options.
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But if you are in a bitter dispute with your spouse or a family member, no amount of money is going to soothe that pain.
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There are all sorts of other kind of human joys and miseries that exist just totally outside of the financial plane.
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Costs of car ownership in general have just been increasing a lot, as the cost of maintenance and repairs have risen too.
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It was common for a car to be near the end of its life at 100,000 miles, but now it's pretty common to go well above that.
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Yeah, this is something that people have always done and in a way almost enjoyed doing.
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But at this particular moment, one of the things that's changed, which will be no surprise to anybody who's shopped for Accor lately, is that the price of cars has increased and the price to borrow money has increased.
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The costs of car ownership in general have just been increasing a lot as the cost of maintenance and repairs have risen too.
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And so it's gotten people thinking about how they might be able to hold on to their own car for a bit longer.
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Something that's working in the background in their favor is that today's old cars are aging more gracefully than the ones that people had maybe a couple of decades ago.
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It was common for a car to be near the end of its life at 100,000 miles.
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