Claims / C-HGGYD6MNVA
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People do not fully adapt to a windfall
The claim
Large lottery wins raise life satisfaction for more than a decade with no sign of fading, while their effect on day-to-day happiness is much smaller: adaptation to wealth is incomplete.
Argument role: boundary, outside check on ch19 (chunks 790-794). Harari says lottery wins fade like a car accident and money stops mattering above a point. Lindqvist, Östling and Cesarini 2020 (call f13dd8c5): Swedish large-prize winners keep higher life satisfaction 5-22 years on, no fade, smaller effect on affect. The 2023 Killingsworth-Kahneman reconciliation (unsourced here, not fetched) points the same way. Harari's evaluative-vs-affective split (Kahneman, chunk 812) is right; his lottery line is not.
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Evidence 1 passage
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This is why winning the lottery has, over time, the same impact on people's happiness as a debilitating car accident.
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