Comment by Qwerteaparty (ben-hayward) on Universal Basic Income and Poverty · 2025-04-07T10:54:37.190Z · LW · GW

I often use a similar framing to make a point about the relative quality of life of high and low income earners in my city for instance: my household income is in top 5% (maybe 1%) but my life is not significantly different to most. We live in a normal house, commute to work on the train and work normal 9-5 jobs, cook dinner, put kids to bed, wash the dishes, maybe watch some TV. Sure we holiday overseas instead of going caravaning, and live in a nicer (judged by land values) area; but these sorts of things aren't really that important to happiness.