{"id":1917,"date":"2023-03-20T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-054w-spring-2023-prof-barnes-asynchronous\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2023-03-20T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T21:19:12","slug":"conversation-5-jahira-bethune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/critical-thinking-crt-100-054w-spring-2023-prof-barnes-asynchronous\/2023\/03\/20\/conversation-5-jahira-bethune\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation #5: Jahira Bethune"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TED Talk Premise<br>Maximize individual freedom<br>Choice<br>More welfare<br>Aware of risk<br>Perception drugs cannot be bought but are marketed to the US. Only through doctors&#8217; daily<br>decisions of who to be. Other things we are thinking of when trying to complete school work.<br>Example &#8211; he minimized the school work load by 20% because of this<br>This is why we need more nature as a model in life for cognitive choice making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adding options to people&#8217;s lives out of expectations and do not help but however they do cause<br>less satisfaction even with good results. He mentioned as a secret to happiness is low<br>expectations. Critical thinking is a need when making decisions with many options. Material<br>affluence enables all of these choice and industrial societies and complicated choices make us<br>worse off and hurt us. Income redistribution will make everyone better. If you shatter a fish bowl<br>an image to make everything possible you decrease satisfaction and increase misery plus<br>disaster.<br>I decided to read the article &#8220;You Try to Live on 500k in This Town&#8221; by Alan salkin. I deem this<br>particular article unreliable. Unfortunately, I noticed that a correction had been made on<br>February 15th 2009. Allen soaking had falsely stated the maximum annual source deduction for<br>salaried employees to be $596 a week however, it was $6,621.20 at this time. So can have<br>falsely stated other information. Furthermore, &#8220;you Try to Live on 500k in This Town&#8221; can be<br>depicted as an article of much information. &#8220;But in the neighborhoods of NYC and its suburbs<br>where successful bankers live, half a million a year can go very fast&#8221; says salkin. Just private<br>schools, mortgage, co-op maintenance fee, and a nanny gets us to $269,000 excluding taxes!<br>500k could not possibly eat us while insufficiently especially not with the family. Even those who<br>are closely associated with money and are paid well, such as &#8220;bankers who are living on the<br>upper East side making two or three million a year, reach a balance of zero by the end of the<br>year&#8221;. Salkins concern is the idea that has been presented. We would all have to settle, &#8220;move<br>to BK or Hoboken, put the children in public school and buy metrocards&#8221;. As a 23 year old, I&#8217;m<br>overwhelmed after viewing the Ted talk and reading the article. In my opinion, money cannot<br>buy happiness! Ted talk mentions that their secret to happiness is low expectations. Low<br>expectations would not allow us to desire anything too much other than what we are and need<br>of. Salkin gives various examples and facts concerning the money that is really necessary to<br>live one life. With that being said, money cannot buy happiness. Money can only buy what life<br>requires. Anything other than that which we purchase is simply temporary satisfaction. I&#8217;m sure<br>that not even half of this world is making a salary of 500k. To think that it takes even a dollar<br>more brings more anxiety and depression rather than happiness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TED Talk PremiseMaximize individual freedomChoiceMore welfareAware of riskPerception drugs cannot be bought but are marketed to the US. Only through doctors&#8217; dailydecisions of who to be. 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