But that's below the poverty line ...
MSN has a lead story today about how making more money can lead to more problems.
According to quotes in the article, they compared those that make $100,000 to those that make $20,000.
My favorite was this:
I like it. You don't say? I'd wager a bet that $20K guy has a lot more free time on his hands. And I want to see how that 19.9% and 34.7% are broken out between socializing and watching TV. Sounds like they were joined together to fill an agenda. I bet that 34.7% is made up of mostly TV hours, as a person making $20,000 doesn't have enough money to socialize anyway.
In 2000, four people (average household size) in the United States were at the poverty line when they made $17,650. While I'm not advocating that more money does equal happiness, I do think we should encourage people to succeed and be able to support themselves without having to go on the dol.
Two Princeton professors -- economist Alan B. Krueger and psychologist and
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman -- joined forces with researchers at three other
universities on the study.
According to quotes in the article, they compared those that make $100,000 to those that make $20,000.
My favorite was this:
Men earning more than $100,000 per year spend 19.9 percent of their time on
activities such as socializing or watching television, compared to 34.7 percent
for men making less than $20,000, according to government statistics. Women
making more than $100,000 spend 19.6 percent of their time on passive leisure,
compared with 33.5 percent of those earning less than $20,000.
I like it. You don't say? I'd wager a bet that $20K guy has a lot more free time on his hands. And I want to see how that 19.9% and 34.7% are broken out between socializing and watching TV. Sounds like they were joined together to fill an agenda. I bet that 34.7% is made up of mostly TV hours, as a person making $20,000 doesn't have enough money to socialize anyway.
In 2000, four people (average household size) in the United States were at the poverty line when they made $17,650. While I'm not advocating that more money does equal happiness, I do think we should encourage people to succeed and be able to support themselves without having to go on the dol.
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