How much do you need to earn to be happy?

Yorkshire Evening Post

We asked the people of Leeds how much do you need to earn to be happy?

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00:00 How much do people need to earn to be happy?

00:02 - Again, subjective.

00:05 What you're outgrowing is what you're incoming is.

00:07 If people have got a home,

00:10 they've got an income, they can eat well,

00:12 they've got a social life,

00:14 people are generally happy.

00:16 - Yeah, what about you, Logan?

00:17 - Yeah, same opinion, you know, honestly.

00:19 Well, I've only really had the experience

00:22 of Arizona and here,

00:24 so my growth as an individual is definitely way different

00:26 from his, he's been everywhere.

00:28 - Yeah, but in terms of like income

00:31 and money that you made,

00:32 would you say that's a big factor on happiness?

00:35 In terms of money that you make,

00:36 money that you have, you know, is that big?

00:39 - Yeah, I think so as well.

00:41 But I think realistically, it's, like you said,

00:43 you know, the social aspect is a really big factor.

00:46 If you're hanging out with people,

00:47 if you're being social and you're doing stuff,

00:49 you know, your income isn't really a factor in that.

00:52 - I think you stay in mind with money is,

00:56 you can have a lot of money.

00:58 I've had more money than I have now.

01:00 It didn't make me any happier.

01:02 It's just an extra tool to use

01:05 that we were told to believe it will make you happy.

01:08 - Yeah.

01:09 - But we get on the society, the wagon wheel,

01:12 and the more we earn, the more we're supposed to spend,

01:16 and the more we're supposed to accumulate,

01:18 the more we're supposed to better ourselves by saying,

01:21 well, I started off in a small two-bedroom house,

01:23 now I need to expand to a three-bedroom,

01:26 I need to move up, vice versa, get a better car.

01:29 And you usually find when you've got it,

01:31 it's not really different.

01:33 - Yeah, how much? - Oh, money's nothing,

01:34 nothing, no, look, I don't think happiness costs anything,

01:36 to be honest with you.

01:38 Yeah, just go to work, do your job,

01:41 do what you need to do, yeah,

01:42 and just enjoy life, like I say.

01:45 - Especially at this time, I mean, I'm retired now,

01:47 so it's slightly different.

01:49 To be quite honest, it's very, very difficult to,

01:53 'cause I have to be slightly out of touch

01:54 with what people are earning now,

01:56 but the fact is that people who are in well-paid jobs

01:59 are still having to go to food banks,

02:00 indicates that possibly a lot more than they're getting.

02:04 But I can't say I can actually put a figure on it,

02:06 to be quite honest.

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