Barry Schwartz argues that having the power to make choices don’t help us. His premises for this the more choices we are allowed to make, the more likely we will be to be miserable. There need to be limits on the choices we are able to make in Western Society. Cory Stieg argues in article that associating our happiness with money or a job that pays a lot will not actually result in happiness, it is better for us if we find out what truly makes us happy and that will pave the way. His premise for this is that humans “have an evolutionary tendency to compare ourselves to other people”, thus saying we can be rich but if someone is richer than us, we will compare ourselves, making our happiness dependent on who has more. The premises of both Stieg and Schwartz help my argument that basing your happiness solely on how much money you have will lead to misery. “At the end of the day, we’re humans and we struggle with existential issues like what’s the meaning of life, and who am I?” Klontz says. “And those sorts of questions don’t go away when you get a bunch of money.” This quote further justifies my argument because money just gives us the resources to buy more things/ experiences, but it doesn’t give us all the answers.
