Re: Friedman's Folly

<retrogrouch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 16 May 2008 07:58:05 +0530, "John Galt"
> <whoisjohngalt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>> NO.  If people say they are happy then they are happy.  It is not up
to
>>> you to tell them what makes them happy.
>>
>>You're suggesting that people will be happy with less money to spend
next
>>year than they do this year?
>>
>>Seriously?
>
>
> Do you honestly believe wealth and happiness are related. LOL.

Wealth? Who said anything about wealth? I'm talking about raising
families. 
I'm talking about food on the table, enough money for your kid to play 
Little League, having your kid's birthday party at Chuckie Cheese, or
maybe 
if you can afford piano lessons for your daughter. At the lower and middle

class layers of society, you're damn right money is tied to happiness. If
it 
wasn't, money wouldn't be continually cited as one of the primary causes
of 
divorce.
>
> I"ve been around some of the richest most powerful people in the
> country and I can tell you most certainly that is not true.

Granted. I completely agree that once the necessities and the little 
luxuries, such as those piano lessons, are covered, money doesn't buy you 
squat in the way of emotional happiness.

JG