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Old 02-17-2008, 09:51 PM   #40 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by loquitur
If the relationship of money and well-being or happiness is tenuous, why should we care as much as we do about inequalities of money?
That's a big "if". There may be a correlation or even causation in the relationship. Until further research is done, there's really no way to know with any measure of certainty.
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Originally Posted by Tully Mars
I saw a study a few years back regarding happiness and wealth. I really just skimmed it so things like baselines etc... I really can't speak about. But the bottom line of the study was it found the happiest people, least in the US, were people whose household income for a family of , I think, four was between 75K-100K. It was several years back so this would have been upper middle class, but certainly not rich by any means.
Well first of all booyah. It's good to know I'm in the happy bracket. I'd love to see this study.
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