The article, “Buy Experiences Not Things” by James Hamblin illuminates that experiential purchases benefit an individual more than a materialistic investments in the ways of, happiness, socialization, and generosity. To start things off, Gilovich has done several studies that verify how an experience is better than a substantial purchase and how it can actually make a person happier. “Gilovich’s prior work has shown that experiences tend to make people happier because they are less likely to measure the value of experiences by comparing them to those of others.” Hamblin composed.The author justifies that happiness occurs more from experience because the individual won’t compare things such as their salary and mechanisms with their peers.
