now with more ish
Fascinating article in Daedalus by economics professor Robert Frank. Here is the thesis:
Considerable evidence suggests that if we use an increase in our incomes, as many of us do, simply to buy bigger houses and more expensive cars, then we do not end up any happier than before. But if we use an increase [...]
I find this absolutely fascinating. It’s probably what evolution really looks like—conceptually speaking—rather than a slow accretion of fit details. A messy, scattered series of missed connections and quasi-random tangents that very slowly over time takes on the appropriate shape. Addictive.
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