Lurid Keyaki writes: Curious if any commenters will argue against this: Europe Must Urgently Prepare to Deter Russia Without Large-Scale US Support.

Heebie's take: this is stressful for me to think about!

When I was in high school, they put on lots of plays, but I don't actually remember the theater department putting on any musicals. But now it seems like high schools and middle schools put on mostly musicals! I don't understand why there's been this shift. (At Heebie University, I never attend anything but I have the impression that they put on mostly plays.)

Is this an actual trend, or just a weird sample of school districts? (I'm personally a little bummed about it, because Hawaii likes to act but does not like to sing.)

I think this would be an interesting survey question: "What's the minimum amount of money would you need to get paid to be happy at your job for a long, long time?"

I imagine that answers would sort into three categories:
- "I basically like my job, so for [amount that feels UMC to the individual] I'd happily do it forever."
- "My job is fairly shitty, but I'd do it indefinitely for [amount that feels very wealthy to the individual]."
- "My job is so awful that it would take Scrooge McDuck money to keep me here forever."

What I'd be curious is to how this falls out by profession.
- which jobs are well-sorted, ie most people are in category 1?
- which jobs are semi-well sorted, ie there's a bimodal distribution of people who love it and people who are there by circumstance?
- which jobs are roundly loathed (obv some are obvious, but maybe some aren't)
- what happens when you ask this question to people in professions that are generally just driven by greed and not much else?

I assume there are plenty of econ papers out there answering this question, but it's easier to scratch my belly and pretend I've thought of something novel than to go check.

Also, I suspect Unfogged answers won't be so interesting, because I suspect we're all mostly in category 1. (Or category 4, "I'd also be happy retiring and puttering about and entertaining myself on a shoestring budget.")

*It kind of bugs me that "threshold" only has one h. I almost kept my misspelled version in just to troll you all.