[nielsole]

There is another argument being made, that people become miserable if they compare their wages, because many people fail at correctly assessing their own value.

> I[sic] found that nearly 40% perceived themselves as performing within the top 5% of their peers.

[xster]

Might just be rhetorical at this point. I'm just thinking would this be similar to "x% of people believe they belong to the (y < x)% of people who don't have any cancerous cells in their body" and then saying cancer diagnostics are bad because information purely serves to make people sad for no reason.