Re:For Homeless Advocates, a Discouraging Lesson in L.A.: Mo...
by zanny on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:29PM
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> happiness no longer increases with more income
Except the most recent study that correlates peak income happiness starts out at 65k a year[1], way beyond median and mean household incomes in the US. Nobody anywhere near the poverty line, or in general few people who have ever been near it, will ever be above the happiness income threshold.
Combine that with the research on how the brain is changed by poverty[2] and nobody should be surprised that you cannot just throw money at the problem once and done with it. It would require a tremendous amount of money over a generational timeframe to correct this, and even then there is a culture to poverty that would still precipitate into future generations born into it even if their parents are uplifted.
Except the most recent study that correlates peak income happiness starts out at 65k a year[1], way beyond median and mean household incomes in the US. Nobody anywhere near the poverty line, or in general few people who have ever been near it, will ever be above the happiness income threshold.
Combine that with the research on how the brain is changed by poverty[2] and nobody should be surprised that you cannot just throw money at the problem once and done with it. It would require a tremendous amount of money over a generational timeframe to correct this, and even then there is a culture to poverty that would still precipitate into future generations born into it even if their parents are uplifted.
[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489.abstract [2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-inequality-d...