helemon
15th August 2005, 12:07 PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/15/nhappy15.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/15/ixhome.html
Money can indeed buy you happiness, but if you want to stay happy it is a good idea to have relatively poor friends, according to new research.
They found that in working out how rich they are, people tend to compare themselves to their peers of the same age. Their happiness, therefore, depends on the relative success of that group. This meant "keeping up with the Joneses" and the need to continually increase one's own income.
So I guess true communism, socialism, & marxism and the united order can never succeed because it makes people miserable?
Money can indeed buy you happiness, but if you want to stay happy it is a good idea to have relatively poor friends, according to new research.
They found that in working out how rich they are, people tend to compare themselves to their peers of the same age. Their happiness, therefore, depends on the relative success of that group. This meant "keeping up with the Joneses" and the need to continually increase one's own income.
So I guess true communism, socialism, & marxism and the united order can never succeed because it makes people miserable?