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Speaker 2: Does making more money make you happier? That is the
Speaker 2: question we're answering today on Flex and Rooms. It's all
Speaker 2: about the financial happiness plateau. There was once a guy
Speaker 2: who said that your happiness plateaus after making seventy five
Speaker 2: k USD. At the time that he said that, I
Speaker 2: don't know what that was worth in aud but right
Speaker 2: now it's at one hundred and three k. He has
Speaker 2: done a big boy thing and admitted that he was
Speaker 2: wrong redacted redacted, which is a very big thing to do.
Speaker 2: But I also feel like it's no fault of his own.
Speaker 2: A lot of opinions on the internet taken as fact
Speaker 2: and they're immortalizing the way they shouldn't be. Sometimes you
Speaker 2: just say things, Oh, sometimes you just like you echulae
Speaker 2: or you hypothesize and you believe it and then it's
Speaker 2: wrong too real, Like isn't gravity a theory? I'm sure
Speaker 2: if big Dog Einstein was still here, he'd be like,
Speaker 2: I don't really know if that's like someone I stand by,
Speaker 2: did einsiginn to gravity? Was that Newton who? No? The
Speaker 2: thing is though, I think that Trying to convince people
Speaker 2: that money does or does not buy happiness is secondary
Speaker 2: to the fact that we live in the world we
Speaker 2: live in currently. Stop telling people not to do whatever
Speaker 2: they need to do to generate happiness in a way
Speaker 2: that works for them. It's not helpful. I don't need
Speaker 2: a nine figure bay being like you would never want this, please,
Speaker 2: it's not helpful. And also what happens is that like
Speaker 2: people end up parentifying you in a really weird way,
Speaker 2: like the girl boss who's like, you would never want this.
Speaker 2: Being a bus is really hard. Let them find out, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let them find out.
Speaker 1: Hord your around and find out.
Speaker 2: You know, because really you're trying to make sure this
Speaker 2: one have competition so you can maintain your check. I
Speaker 2: don't like it. Oh. The problem with being able to
Speaker 2: publish stuff is that like, at the time it's true,
Speaker 2: and then it's not true, and then if you're lucky,
Speaker 2: it just fades into obscurity and nobody calls you out
Speaker 2: on it. But then if you're unlucky, you gotta like
Speaker 2: maintain your credibility by being like, I was wrong, and listen,
Speaker 2: it's okay to be wrong when you change a generation.
Speaker 2: When you convince people that they don't need any more
Speaker 2: money when the Cozi living's going up. Babes, I think
Speaker 2: you might be a demon. Who were you working for
Speaker 2: at the time. He was in cahoots with HR and
Speaker 2: the corporations of the world to get people to not
Speaker 2: ask to pay.
Speaker 3: Rises because you need anything more than seventy five. Okay,
Speaker 3: don't worry about it.
Speaker 2: He had a kickback. You take seventy you won't be
Speaker 2: happier with anymore. It's gluttonous.
Speaker 1: Listen, I think that this hinges on this. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is condingent on this. It is Are you sure I
Speaker 1: want us just keep going?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: I do fault to the man in the room when
Speaker 1: it comes to these This is.
Speaker 2: A this is a habit, and Frumi will say I'm
Speaker 2: being a hater. But FRUMI will spend so much time
Speaker 2: quizzing the women in the office and find one random
Speaker 2: stray man, any man, not even one that's had any
Speaker 2: context of what's happening, and default his opinion and then
Speaker 2: be done. She's comfortable. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: See, at least I know what I'm doing. Okay, unlearning
Speaker 1: behavior space.
Speaker 3: You're not learning misogynist And he said the man inside
Speaker 3: of me said to find the closest man.
Speaker 2: To listen to.
Speaker 1: Anyway, guys listen. I think that how much money you
Speaker 1: earn is important with regards to your friends. If all
Speaker 1: your friends are on seventy five, then you chill.
Speaker 3: If you're on a seventy five.
Speaker 1: Lifestyle and your friends are earning twenty k.
Speaker 2: I think how much money you need is continue on
Speaker 2: the lifestyle you want to have and sustain. And unfortunately,
Speaker 2: if you live in metropolitan areas, that will always be
Speaker 2: exploding out of control. Sydney Vibes is hampster Wiel vibes.
Speaker 2: People never feel content here because as soon as you've
Speaker 2: gotten the job that affords you enough money to pay
Speaker 2: your ramp, get your private health care, pay your car
Speaker 2: and ensure, do your phone bill and go out with
Speaker 2: the girlies, the rent's gone up. Yeah, babe, it's cooked.
Speaker 1: Are you liking Melbourne?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Do you think it's any different?
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 2: Well, it's different in the sense that I've got a
Speaker 2: head start because I'm living in Sydney, in Sydneyland for prices,
Speaker 2: So I'm like, I'm balling, but give it, you know,
Speaker 2: two years and I'll go back to Hobart Hobart, miss Ebabe,
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