{"id":3614,"date":"2024-03-12T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2024-03-12T00:47:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T04:47:57","slug":"conversation-5-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/2024\/03\/12\/conversation-5-argument\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversation #5: Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Ted Talk, <strong>&#8220;Paradox Of Choice&#8221;, Barry Schwartz<\/strong> speaks about how even though freedom is a want, having an overwhelming option of choice can limit our freedom. The premise is that choice can often be paralyzing, leading to dissatisfaction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article I chose was <strong>\u201cFrom the \u2018Perfect\u2019 Salary to Keeping Up with the Joneses, here\u2019s How Money Affects Your Happiness\u201d by Cory Stieg<\/strong>.\u00a0The article concludes that money doesn&#8217;t bring happiness. The premise is that depending on how you use that money, it can change your life for the better or even worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I agree that money doesn&#8217;t bring happiness. Even the most well-off person who lives and breathes money can feel dissatisfaction with their lives. When they look at someone with a little more than them, envy can kick in and there&#8217;s this eagerness to get more and more to feel powerful. In the article, it states, <em>&#8220;This is because we have an evolutionary tendency to compare ourselves to other people, Klontz says. \u201cWe\u2019re very much wired on a survival level to see how we compare and where we stack up next to everybody else.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>With the current grind culture, there is this pressure to be a millionaire by thirty and that&#8217;s not realistic for everyone as we see the recent inflation rates causing everything to be expensive. Money can bring happiness to a certain extent but can&#8217;t be there for you emotionally (unless you are an emotional eater and need to buy food to eat). I believe having a purpose and a goal is required so you can be challenged as a person. If you spend money on experiences rather than on material items, it can be beneficial to your happiness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Ted Talk, &#8220;Paradox Of Choice&#8221;, Barry Schwartz speaks about how even though freedom is a want, having an overwhelming option of choice can limit our freedom. The premise is that choice can often be paralyzing, leading to dissatisfaction. The article I chose was \u201cFrom the \u2018Perfect\u2019 Salary to Keeping Up with the Joneses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8981,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-conversation-5","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/crt-100-fye-s24-prof-barnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}