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If you hate your family that much, work 3 jobs, save for a year and start a business; the business of playing everquest at an office park.

We all have some money.

Oh, and here I was thinking we were talking about rich people. I pursue things that make me happy, money may be a part of that but it's only a part to a certain point (Gotta have food, house, cable, movies, coffee, car, maybe a fishing boat) so I only seek it to that point then my energy is directed to other things that make me happy.

I'd probably give away a lot of my money if I was rich. Heck, I already give away a chunk of my money and I'm certainly not rich.

Oh I do care about money, I just make enough to cover my needs so it's not an issue. Making more money will not make me happier. My current ambition is to get into shape, and that's going quite well. My previous big goal was to quit smoking and I'm smoke free for 2 years now. I have plenty of drive/ambition/willpower and I direct it where I want it, not towards making money. If I decide at some point that money will make me happy I will point that drive and ambition in the appropriate direction.

The 10 starving children who just died because you didn't make enough money to donate food to them say keep on truckin man, your lack of materialism impressed them. They would have sent a letter but their hands were ravaged by malnutrition into claw like clubs only suitable for bashing their own skulls while praying for the sweet embrace of death.

I believe they said that $70,000 a year is the maximum happiness point. After that, you may have more money, but it doesn't necessarily translate into more happiness.

They got that datapoint because the people making 20 Mil a year were too busy nailing high priced escorts 9 deep to bother with surveys.

First thing that came up on google.

TL:DR = Rich people don't laugh enough.

Edit: Also, seriously, who links to the PNAS journal main page and not the actual study?

Edited, Sep 6th 2012 12:49pm by someproteinguy

I think risk aversion comes into play as much as ambition.

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It's a niche market, but by running an outsourced plat farming team, you can keep costs low, and rake in those ill gotten gains.

My dearest wish is to monopolise entirely the means of production. The only thing of value anyone else will have is their own flesh. Pimps will eke out a living selling the emaciated hordes to me, that I might fuck them with a billion golden ******

Don't pretend you're any different, man. They call it the American dream for a reason.

You're correct. The technical high was in Oct 2010 at 10%. However, it hovered within a few tenths of a percent until Nov of 2010 (which was the date I was thinking of), at which point it finally began declining. However, unlike past recessionary patterns, it didn't drop down to anywhere near the pre-recession levels.

It's not arbitrary Smash. Every recession for the previous 30 years followed a pretty standard 3 year cycle. 6 months of recession, about a year and a half after that point of high unemployment, then about a year of rapid recovery (for unemployment, other factors tend to recover earlier. Obama knew this going in. He counted on it. It's why he made the statement that if he didn't have our economic problems licked within three years, he'd be a one term president. It's also why the Dems made such a big deal about summer 2010 being the "summer of recovery". Because past recession patterns indicated that unemployment should have started a rapid decline starting in July of that year. But it didn't. It stayed high until November and then didn't come all the way down.

I can link to the employment numbers showing this pattern if you really want (although I've linked to them in past threads). It's not hard to see, and it's also not hard to see that the Dems were acting on the assumption that those patterns would be repeated regardless of what they did in terms of spending/stimulus/etc.


They were wrong. And it's absolutely ridiculous for you to stand here today and pretend that no one had an expectation that we should have been fully recovered sometime in mid to late 2011. That was exactly the expectation that your own party was operating on, and you damn well know it.

I'm Canadian.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kc8fyc58k9rilxw/new_jobs_through_july_2012.png

Just for you. Explicit detail directly from the BLS.