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    Why you are all miserable bastards...

    Money really does buy you happiness say scientists | Daily Mail Online

    Money really can buy happiness, scientists claim - but only up to a point.

    Researchers have found an annual income of between £43,000 ($60,000) and £54,000 ($75,000) is the ideal amount for emotional well-being.

    They also discovered an income of £68,000 ($95,000) is the maximum amount people should earn to be completely satisfied with life.

    Earning any more than this can cause people to be miserable because they become too focused on material goods, researchers claim.


    Time to beg the clients for a rate cut!

    #2
    You want below £43,000 so you can be miserable?


    Mauve Monkey will need £68,000 + so he can buy his dream flat above the Kebab shop next to AtW!
    Last edited by vetran; 14 February 2018, 19:32.
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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      #3
      Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
      Money really does buy you happiness say scientists | Daily Mail Online

      Money really can buy happiness, scientists claim - but only up to a point.

      Researchers have found an annual income of between £43,000 ($60,000) and £54,000 ($75,000) is the ideal amount for emotional well-being.

      They also discovered an income of £68,000 ($95,000) is the maximum amount people should earn to be completely satisfied with life.

      Earning any more than this can cause people to be miserable because they become too focused on material goods, researchers claim.


      Time to beg the clients for a rate cut!
      This explains why I spend too much time on here arguing and 'foaming at the mouth' about stupid tulip. Maybe we all earn a bit too much? I'm surprised Branson, Gates, BUffet and Musk haven't topped themselves yet!
      "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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        #4
        Originally posted by Jog On View Post
        Maybe we all earn a bit too much?
        This is exactly the effect these "studies" are design to produce on the proletariat. Keep quiet, don't aspire to advance further, just shut up and buy more consumer goods and celebrate made up commercialised tulipe like valentines. We're telling you: you're happier than us slave masters!
        Last edited by TheGreenBastard; 14 February 2018, 20:14.

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          #5
          Monday links, an iphone and a toilet seat to sit on. What more can any man ask for?

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            #6
            Why you are all miserable bastards...

            that's Mister miserable bastard to you lot

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              #7
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              Researchers have found an annual income of between £43,000 ($60,000) and £54,000 ($75,000) is the ideal amount for emotional well-being.

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                #8
                Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                Money really does buy you happiness say scientists | Daily Mail Online

                Money really can buy happiness, scientists claim - but only up to a point.

                Researchers have found an annual income of between £43,000 ($60,000) and £54,000 ($75,000) is the ideal amount for emotional well-being.

                They also discovered an income of £68,000 ($95,000) is the maximum amount people should earn to be completely satisfied with life.

                Earning any more than this can cause people to be miserable because they become too focused on material goods, researchers claim.

                Time to beg the clients for a rate cut!
                John Cleese nailed it in an interview I saw a while ago - The most useful thing money buys is time, as in spare time to do what you want and not have to occupy your hours with employment and chores

                (Maybe also time to live longer with the best medical care, although I think he was referring mainly to the first, i.e. leisure time)

                So for those who can't think much if anything fulfilling to do in their spare time, having pots of money may not be all it's cracked up to be and may even be a curse.

                As Samuel Johnson said, vaguely in connection with this, "If you are idle be not melancholy, and if you are melancholy be not idle"
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                  John Cleese nailed it in an interview I saw a while ago - The most useful thing money buys is time, as in spare time to do what you want and not have to occupy your hours with employment and chores
                  ^ this.

                  F.I.R.E.

                  Could you get financial independence and retire early? | This is Money

                  Best way to achieve this is too earn 10x the amounts quoted in that stupid DM article and work 10x fewer hours in a lifetime...

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                    #10
                    It's a fair point.

                    I mean if you suddenly won the lottery and never had to work how soon would
                    a) You get your golf handicap down to single figures
                    b) Become an alcoholic/addict of some kind
                    c) Travel the world
                    d) Do something useful

                    For me if i won the lottery would probably start a small racing team.... but then in reality that is just 'working' again

                    I mean maybe if I had loads of money I may spend more time trying to be more imaginative...

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