gjm comments on Open Thread April 11 - April 17, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 17 April 2016 10:14:40PM 1 point [-]

not true in reality

I imagine it varies a lot. For what it's worth I'm not going only off the popular meme but also off what I've heard from people in finance.

compared to what?

Of course. The same goes for wealth, of course.

Comment author: Lumifer 18 April 2016 12:42:36AM 1 point [-]

The same goes for wealth, of course.

With wealth at least there is some data. There is a distribution of wealth in a given society and you can look up the quantile of any wealth value easily enough. But quality of life? To start with, it's not even a well-defined term as it is usually used as a catch-all bin for everything except money. I have no idea what a distribution of quality of life would look like.

Comment author: gjm 18 April 2016 10:42:16AM 0 points [-]

Fair points. I think that when people complain about "quality of life" in finance they mostly mean working hours and (secondarily) stress and job security. Working hours, at least, are pretty readily quantifiable, though I don't think they're surveyed anything like as thoroughly as pay.