Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Slate Money.

Normally your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm joined by Emily Peck of the Huff Post.

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We are joined in the studio by Laurie Santos. are the most popular professor at Yale University

yes no I mean you really are yes by the numbers yes and we have a whole

slate plus segment just talking about the But mainly what we're going to do is talk to you about the connection between money and happiness and whether and what direction the causality runs.

We're going to talk about wine because it's my show and it's all we're going to talk about wine because it's my show and we're going to talk about

wine we're going to talk about experiences and I think to kick us off we're going to

talk to Taffy Acna about whether happiness is even something which we should be wanting in the first place.

All that coming up on slate money.

We are going to take advantage of the presence of Taffy Brodessa Agna in the studio to explain her theory

about why you shouldn't want to be happy?

It's not that I don't want to be happy.

It's that it is not the end goal.

It is more of an, like an offshoot of the other things that I aspire for, I aspire to.

I have a real like Calvinism in me that is about hard work and satisfaction,

but the feeling of happiness is not is not my favorite feeling.

What's your favorite feeling? I really I sometimes really love sadness and I am wild for anxiety. I am like I would snort anxiety through my nose if I could and I hear you can but I've never done that.

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counterpoint.

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