Yet, strangely, when the richer you are, apparently no happier. Why? And when can we get accomplished at the level of self-actualization that ultimately would be linked to your satisfaction? Confused.To put it in today’s terms, owning an iPod doesn’t make you happier, because you then want an iPod Touch. Relative income — how much you make compared with others around you mattered far more than absolute income, Mr. Easterlin wrote.
Is it true money does buy happiness after all?
Maybe
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Interesting... the relative part. One could extrapolate by saying that money = power, so what the relative gap means is that you have more power, threfore power = happiness. But that's a bit simplistic...
I think the key to happiness is to be happy with what you have, and I guess that's easier when you know others have less?
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