Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Can money buy happiness?
- Yes?
- well-off are more optimistic
- medical point of view
- better healthcare
- rich tend to be thinner
- surveys
- Whitehall SUrvey UCS
- 17 000 civil servants
- top = low mortality rate
- botoom = high mortality rate
- 1998 Town&County
- richer people have...
- better marriages
- better friendship
- more interesting jobs
- US Study
- high income class - healthier
- low income class - less healthy
- money represents convenience and time
- convenience - necessities are readily available
- time - buy someone else's time
- how much money does it take to be rich ?
- enough to never have to work again
- No?
- Dawn Wilby
- Won 4 million pounds
- wasn't happy just laying around and waiting for happiness
- money = misery
- executives with bonuses were unhappy
- jealousy
- greed
- lottery winner
- people ask for loans
- unhappiness or simply annoyance?