Want to Be Happy? Buy More Takeout and Hire a Maid, Study Suggests
TL;DR: They sent out a survey and asked if you spent money on time-saving tasks, and in general how happy you are. They were correlated. Then they gave people $40 and asked how happy they were at the end of the day.<p>Self-reported happiness is a dumb &#x27;metric&#x27; and everyone knows it. Not much meat in this article, but it does raise an interesting point. But it doesn&#x27;t ever get into if people paid for tasks they disliked, or cheapest tasks, etc. I don&#x27;t like cleaning the house, but if I paid someone to grocery shop while I cleaned the house I&#x27;d save $40 compared to doing the opposite despite them taking the same amount of time.