Status goods, non-satiation and happines - Does welfare make us happier?

6 important questions on Status goods, non-satiation and happines - Does welfare make us happier?

One explanation of a possible negative relationship between welfare and happiness given by Hirsch is:

that the pursuit of status goods may demand resources that diminish the availability of non-status goods

Another phenomenon induced by economic growth: decline in sociability and friendliness.

3 conditions that are essential for people to live as real people (Arendt):

·social life in its plurality
·earth
·time

Easterlin established 3 findings:

·wealhy persons report higher subjective well-being than poor persons
·the life satisfaction of a typical member of a Western society typically                 remained substantially unchanged during a period of rapid economic                 growth
·he examined the relationship between average subjective well-                           being(SBW) and average income for different countries in a cross-                     section and found that there was no correlation between these                           variables. 
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The transition of common property to private property contributed to scarcity in 2 ways

by increasing the mimetic competition between landlords and by creating real scarcity among the landless laborers.

How to reduce the unhappiness caused by never-ending feelings of unstatisfied desires:

·define one's happiness independent from the situation of others
·restrict one's desires in so far as wishes are unattainable
·focus on inspiring but distant examples

Conclusion from transition of common property to private property contributed: Market competion ...

doesn't only operate as an invisible hands that creates wealth ad growth but also as an invisble foot that tramples upon the have nots

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