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07-21-2010, 07:50 PM
Why Money Makes You Unhappy | Wired Science*| Wired.com (http://abnormalreturns.com/links/175307/visit) (www.wired.com)
by abnormalreturns 8 minutes ago
oney is surprisingly bad at making us happy. Once we escape the trap of poverty, levels of wealth have an extremely modest impact on levels of happiness, especially in developed countries. Even worse, it appears that the richest nation in history 21st century America is slowly getting less pleased with life. (Or as the economists behind this recent analysis concluded: In the United States, the [psychological] well-being of successive birth-cohorts has gradually fallen through time.)
see story at Abnormal Returns site...(RSS feed) (http://abnormalreturns.com/links/index?date=07/22/2010#175307)
by abnormalreturns 8 minutes ago
oney is surprisingly bad at making us happy. Once we escape the trap of poverty, levels of wealth have an extremely modest impact on levels of happiness, especially in developed countries. Even worse, it appears that the richest nation in history 21st century America is slowly getting less pleased with life. (Or as the economists behind this recent analysis concluded: In the United States, the [psychological] well-being of successive birth-cohorts has gradually fallen through time.)
see story at Abnormal Returns site...(RSS feed) (http://abnormalreturns.com/links/index?date=07/22/2010#175307)