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RE: The rational and moral justifications for self upvoting - Why I upvote my own posts and encourage most people to do so (within reason)
Blog posts are just an excuse to make pursuit of ROI socially acceptable to others. Steem has to be attractive to investors or the whole thing collapses. There's no way any single blogger on this platform makes $10k/month positive impact on the real world, and those numbers are very high in the first place and other studies show that even in the US satisfaction with life doesn't get much higher after people start earning mid 70k/yr.
I posted studies, and those studies are scientific. The numbers produced were the estimates they came up with as the official numbers. If you come up with arbitrary numbers but do not cite your source then why would we take it seriously?
I cited the source behind the science and also I posted a range which recognizes that it's a spectrum. The cost of living, taxes, etc, are not the same in every part of the country or across the world, so we cannot really come up with one definite number for everyone.
The numbers I'm citing are actually alternative data points from the same papers that are referenced in the articles you linked, lol.
Income satisfaction really depends on the individual, you don't have to cite any aggregate of other people's opinions on how happy they are with their lives and their incomes to know how happy you are with your own.
If you aren't happy with how much money you're making now then you're not happy! It's as simple as that. It would be more useful to look into why you or anyone else is unhappy, than to just say that since other people are unhappy, clearly you should be too.
You must be talking about the Fast Company link. Important to note that the number amount of money isn't what is important. What is important more than that number is the buying power and the social relations involved (the cost of freedom is rising). Inflation, differences in cost of living, rising taxes, or even what you like to do, all influence how high or how low that number will be.
Some people don't mind spending life in prison but most people very much mind this. This is why public sentiment is so essential for determining what most people like or what most people want.
Slaves often were not happy and would run away or die fighting for freedom. Is it much of a leap to figure out that if people are willing to risk their lives that maybe they really really want that freedom?
Money buys freedom. Without money you cannot afford a lawyer, you cannot afford to travel, you can barely afford to eat food and even if you do you cannot afford healthy food. For people who pursue happiness which requires freedom then yes there is a threshold amount of money which makes that pursuit possible.
Whilst the number in monetary terms is not the same for everybody it is a number and most people have one. If you don't then feel free to dedicate your life to charity, altruism, and asceticism. Nothing is wrong with asceticism but most people have material comforts whether it be an air conditioner in the hot summer or a favorite food.