Money,
Happiness, Subjective Well Being & Sloppiness at The NY Times’
One thing money doesn’t buy – poverty
Ellis
Schwartz, my dad
Stipulating:
Money (the current
currency) = goods and services, a store of value for eventual exchange for
goods and services
Satis =
etymologically is from the Latin ‘satis’ meaning ‘enough’
Happiness
=
etymologically from ‘happenstance’ meaning ‘by chance’
Well-being =
etymologically well = “in a satisfactory
manner, Old English wel “ abundantly, very, very much; indeed, to be sure; with
good reason – while being = c. 1300, "existence,” “condition, state, circumstances; presence,
fact of existing
New research suggests that more money
really does lead to a more satisfying life
‘Money Really
Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life’
by Justin
Wolfers, NY Times
Columnist
Wolfers fails to define money & satisfying let alone happiness accepting
subjective well being as assumptive
metric basis’s for his conclusion even when citing studies.
Thus, is the
metric of subjective well being a measure of palliation? Is one person’s degree
of subjective well being – another person’s crying towel – akin to one man’s
floor is another woman’s glass ceiling? Even taken in the aggregate of the measure of subjective
well being - what does this measure other than subjective well being - not well
being?
What is
satisfaction per these studies?
How is
happiness defined per these studies?
Once again,
more and its more-on prophets for profit (a division of self esteem, happiness
and participation trophies inc) put the pedal to the medal without any mettle.
Guess the fake
news influenza at the Times has infected the Business and Personal Finance
section first with just plain sloppiness.
Yes, money
doesn’t buy poverty but does it buy undefined happiness, well being,
satisfaction or depending on the level of wealth and income just more altered
states requiring greater and greater dosages for palliation?
It’s a
question of definition which Wolfers conveniently avoids especially given well
being is ‘satisfactory existence’ per etymology (as satis is enough) his
headline is More Satisfying
Life – a contradiction in underlying terms (more vs enough).
Of course,
legend has it when Rockefeller was asked what was ‘enough’ he said, ‘a little
more.’
Maybe Wolfers
is an ancestor.
