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Stuff You Should Know

Do objects or experiences make us happier?

Stuff You Should Know

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Since Sartre classified things that make us happy into the categories of having and doing, science took up the investigation into materialism and experientialism. The results have been in for a while: experiences win by a wide margin, but why exactly?

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