On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:07:57 -0700 (PDT), Video61@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On May 16, 10:10 am, retrogro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 May 2008 13:04:11 +0530, "John Galt"
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>> <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> ><retrogro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> >news:tj8q24punnraomov9r1624m14mvkggb6mt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >> On Fri, 16 May 2008 07:58:05 +0530, "John Galt"
>> >> <whoisjohng...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> >>>> 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.
>>
>> Nonsense. Some of the happiest people I know are very poor. I used
>> to tend bar for some of the richest and most powerful and can tell you
>> money was a long way from delivering happiness for them.
>
> he is a aristocrat, he simply cannot understand that there is more to
>life than just compiling wealth thru exploitation unproductively.
It's an almost uniquely American mind set that equates income with
happiness. And then when it doesn't deliver they scramble to make ever
more thinking just a bit more will finally deliver that happiness.
it is literally unthinkable for them that the two really have almost
no relation.
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