http://www.businesspundit.com/money-vs-happiness/ Entrepreneurship, Startup Companies and Business Philosophy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.businesspundit.com/money-vs-happiness/comment-page-1/#comment-2 David G Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:30:25 +0000 http://www.businesspundit.com.php5-6.websitetestlink.com/?p=3#comment-2 wow, rob - what a way to start blogging - this 1st post was profound. After working on every continent and living on 3 of them, my experience has always been that more wealth definitely equates to less happiness - without exception, people in countries with high unemployment rates are happier than the average US resident. The ideals we strive for in modern, western, capitalist culture put up incredible barriers to being happy - and the (high) quality of life we take for granted makes it difficult to appreciate what we have - the next US generation, with their "entitlement" issues is going to be even more unhappy as they mature - for a very good book on this subject, I highly recommend "the art of happiness"; it gave me incredible insight into why the people who should (logically?) be happiest, are not. wow, rob – what a way to start blogging – this 1st post was profound. After working on every continent and living on 3 of them, my experience has always been that more wealth definitely equates to less happiness – without exception, people in countries with high unemployment rates are happier than the average US resident. The ideals we strive for in modern, western, capitalist culture put up incredible barriers to being happy – and the (high) quality of life we take for granted makes it difficult to appreciate what we have – the next US generation, with their “entitlement” issues is going to be even more unhappy as they mature – for a very good book on this subject, I highly recommend “the art of happiness”; it gave me incredible insight into why the people who should (logically?) be happiest, are not.

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