Here are excerpts from the link.
"Once you get basic human needs met, a lot more money doesn't make a lot more happiness," notes Dan Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard University and the author of the new book Stumbling on Happiness.
Thanx for sharing the link, but personally, I don't need rocket scientists, psychologists, or anyone to tell me such rubbish. The more the merrier.
As the graphic at left shows, going from earning less than $20,000 a year to making more than $50,000 makes you twice as likely to be happy, yet the payoff for then surpassing $90,000 is slight. And while the rich are happier than the poor, the enormous rise in living standards over the past 50 years hasn't made Americans happier.
Here we go again, supposedly smart people who know so much about how people react to money.They lump everyone together like they're making a "People stew", for heaven's sake. These people don't know me from Adam. They haven't the slightest of what I'd do with my fortune or how I would spend it. Gimme a break.
While earning more makes you happy in the short term, you quickly adjust to your new wealth--and everything it buys you.
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Well...that's a great adjustment if you ask me. How does this idiot know whether I would want more, after all those extras, and those extras won't suffice in my personal case. He just got those stats from a large group, and averaged out the outcome.
When you go to a doctor with a problem, he doesen't say..".well...most people with your problem do well after. So just go home and you'll be OK"...LOL... He has to personally examine you to see what specifics are involved. You can't lump everyone.
More money can lead to more stress. The big salary you pull in from your high-paying job may not buy you much in the way of happiness. But it can buy you a spacious house in the suburbs. Trouble is, that also means a long trip to and from work, and study after study confirms what you sense daily.
If I were rich, I wouldn't have a job! Even if I had a job, it would probably be run from my house office, or online.DUHHH!
Two days ago I picked up a family of four. I'm a limo driver. This place was so remote,but when I finally got there, I saw houses that resembled mini-resorts. Atleast 5 mill a piece. I called my boss and told him about how they would have trouble commuting, and he said that it's unlikely that these people have to commute at all...LOL
Friends and family are a mighty elixir. One secret of happiness? People. Innumerable studies suggest that having friends matters a great deal. Large-scale surveys by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, for example, find that those with five or more close friends are 50% more likely to describe themselves as "very happy" than those with smaller social circles. Compared with the happiness-increasing powers of human connection, the power of money looks feeble indeed. So throw a party, set up regular lunch dates--whatever it takes to invest in your friendships.
Sure friends are nice, especially rich friends, but they won't pay my mortgage,and everything else, unless they're so rich that they might throw a big bone my way, but then again, if I were to mingle with rich friends in the first place, I would probably not even need a handout.I'd have it made already.
When asked what gives them the most pleasure, people favor health and home over stuff.
1 84% Good health
2 60% A home you own
3 48% Children
4 46% An interesting job
5 36% Free and leisure time
6 22% A yard or garden
7 19% A luxury or second car
8 19% The latest electronic gadgets
SOURCE: 2005 Happiness Study, based on GfK NOP Roper Reports Worldwide survey.
Well duh!!! All the money in the world won't do you any good if you're lying on a hospital bed.
Let's see....The 2005 Happiness study....
I imagine these experts are the same people who try to cram religion down other people's throats. My god is better than your god. I know what the truth is. I'll tell you how to live your life. You'll burn in hell if you don't do exactly as I do. You can't fart on wednesdays, and you can't eat opposum on mondays...