Money really can buy happiness

[robinturner]

I've posted before about research showing that, contrary to folk wisdom, money really does result in happiness (though with the common-sense caveat that there is a law of diminishing returns - usually anything after the first $1m is wasted). Money certainly made me happy today - after going into the city to pay some car tax arrears, I stopped off at the post office, as I'd received a slip that said someone called in my office while I wasn't there. It turned out that a Japanese publisher whose Internet research I'd participated in had mailed me 140 Euros. Let's hear it for the Japanese!

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[cf.livejournal.com]

heh heh.

i just got a check for $25 bucks for delivering some organic coffee to a friend in istanbul. i thought it was just going to be a gift to the guy, and wham! there is this check!

i am thinking about getting a job here in the US to make lots of money. Maybe I should...

Or, as Woody Allen once wrote...

[oblomova.livejournal.com]

"Money isn't everything. But it is better than having one's health. After all, one can't walk into a butcher shop and say 'Look at this great tan. And you know, I never catch colds,' and expect the butcher to hand over his finest merchandise. Unless, of course, the butcher is an idiot."