Matt Elson

I guess the question then becomes, like, what are we supposed to do about it?

I mean...

If we're living in a society where even if you make 300 to 400 to 500 plus thousand dollars a year, and you still feel kind of shitty about the situation, then I feel like the society doesn't really work anymore, at least it doesn't work in the way it was supposed to.

I mean, we're supposed to be looking at the surveys and learning life gets better.

You improve the more money you make.

I guess I'm starting to think, like, what are we supposed to do about this?

I mean, is this a social media problem?

Do we need to stop looking at social media?

Do we need to stop reading these surveys?

I mean, Ben, what are we supposed to, I guess, take away from this data?

Yeah, it's interesting just looking at the chart.

There is a sweet spot based on this data, which is $200,000 to $300,000 a year.

Only 16% of those households or those people say that they are living paycheck to paycheck, which is the lowest of any group.

And it makes me wonder, like, maybe there is a sweet spot.

Maybe there is an amount of money where you're not really on this hedonic treadmill.

You don't feel that you're so much in the rat race, but also you're comfortable enough to feel good about your situation, maybe.

I mean, Rameet, is there a sweet spot?

Right.

It sort of brings up the question of like, what is even the ultimate goal when it comes to money?

Because, I mean...