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5208973 No.5208973 [Reply] [Original]

Say that 1 dollar would amount to 1 happiness

What would you pay for a coke
What would you pay for a kiss
What would you pay for a visit to your parents

>> No.5209046

I do not understand the units.

Are we supposed to pay happiness to do things? Or are we supposed to rate things based on how happy they make us, related to each other?

>> No.5209064

>>5208973
what the fuck is 1 happiness?

>> No.5209084

>>5208973
http://www.versobooks.com/books/954-an-unfinished-revolution

>> No.5209088

...But I'd be paying happiness to GET happiness.

>> No.5209093

>>5209088

OH, or are you asking how we value 1 dollar when compared to 1 happiness?

>> No.5209132

It all depends on just how happy "1 happiness" is...

>> No.5209134

>tfw every time you pay for a coke you become 1.69 less happy

>> No.5209148

>>5209132
Doesn't that depend on the economy?

>> No.5209155

>>5209134
>tfw ausfag
>become 2.50 less happy
>for a can

Actually, I haven't bought a can of soft drink in about 5 years so it's probably more expensive now.

>> No.5209159

>>5209148

hedonic adaptation would imply that generally happiness would stay the same, with some fluctuations now and then

>> No.5209171

What would you give to a homeless man
What would you give to a clinical depressive
What would you give to a victim of abuse

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>>5208973

>> No.5209194

Happiness is a non-rivalrous good. Also, I have no idea how one could have two happinesses.

What the fuck is the point here?

>> No.5209206

>>5209194
>What the fuck is the point here?

For OP to sap all your happinesses via inane dickery.

>> No.5209258

>make thread
>leave

>> No.5209323

>>5208973
>What would you pay for a visit to your parents
I am at my parents' and leaving Saturday, yesterday I was seriously contemplating leaving today/as soon as possible even though that would have cost me about 200 bucks. Can I pay in unhappiness?

>> No.5209347

>>5209258
Pretty much what I did.

Hehe nevermind, it wasn't supposed to be 1 happiness. Just happiness. Let's say money makes you happy right.

How would it really translate, if money = happiness

Could you somehow put a price on coke as happiness and then translate it to more abstract things?

>> No.5209372

>>5209171

A glass of harden the fuck up.

>> No.5209410

>>5209347
Money doesn't grant you happiness, the ability to spend money grants you happiness. If expending money meant decreasing your level of happiness, it'd be all backwards.

>> No.5209415

>>5209410
That is what it means if you're jewish