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  "content_md": "> In a paper entitled Stress that Doesn’t Pay, Swiss economists Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer wrote that a bad commute reduces happiness regardless of how long we’re exposed to it. Even the loss of a limb or winning the lottery doesn’t create a permanent and sizable shift in happiness, but a bad commute does. They call this the “commute paradox”.\n\n[The Commute Paradox ↗](https://nealmueller.com/the-commute-paradox)",
  "content_html": "<blockquote><p>In a paper entitled Stress that Doesn’t Pay, Swiss economists Bruno Frey and Alois Stutzer wrote that a bad commute reduces happiness regardless of how long we’re exposed to it. Even the loss of a limb or winning the lottery doesn’t create a permanent and sizable shift in happiness, but a bad commute does. They call this the “commute paradox”.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://nealmueller.com/the-commute-paradox\">The Commute Paradox ↗</a></p>",
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