The Atlantic - The Happiness Trinity

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/happiness-marriage-money-satisfaction/678185/

Really interesting piece.

TLDR: The three pillars are finances, family, and social fitness. In the US economics drives the latter two more and more.

"They rise together and fall together. Low-income Americans have seen the largest declines in marriage and experience the most loneliness. High-income Americans marry more and have not only richer investment accounts but also richer social lives. In this light, the philosophical question of what contributes most to happiness is just the beginning. The deeper question is why the trinity of happiness is so stratified by income—and whether well-being in America is in danger of becoming a luxury good."