Kim Stanley Robinson, 58: "[I]t has to be [said] that a reliable sufficiency of money is indeed necessary to scaffold the possibility of [...] good things. The happy medium, the Goldilocks zone in terms of personal income, according to sociological analyses, seemed to rest at around 100,000 US dollars a year, or about the same amount of money that most working scientists made, which was a little suspicious in several senses, but there it stood: data"
> from Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future (2020)
> tagged with #capitalism, #happiness
> created Apr 11, 2025 at 1:49:20 PM
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