Happy @ $75,000.oo
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Re: Happy @ $75,000.oo
Interesting, indeed. Not the first bit of research coming to similar conclusions. Start with Maslow.David G
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Re: Happy @ $75,000.oo
It occurred to me that maybe not everyone is familiar with Maslow's signature "Hierarchy of Needs" work. This is not the end all/be all on the topic, but is where my understanding of the matter starts:
David G
Harbor Woodworks
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"It was a Sunday morning and Goddard gave thanks that there were still places where one could worship in temples not made by human hands." -- L. F. Herreshoff (The Compleat Cruiser)
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Re: Happy @ $75,000.oo
I'm not at all surprised, and I would suggest that the number is even lower for some of us.What are you doing about it?
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I've got unfettered access to at least that amount worth of sailboats. And yes, I am pretty happy.Comment
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Re: Happy @ $75,000.oo
Options ARE happiness...
Which 1/3 of Americans don't seem to have right now...
They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones. Many own homes. Most pay taxes. Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs. None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by.
Down but not quite out, these Americans form a diverse group sometimes called “near poor” and sometimes simply overlooked — and a new count suggests they are far more numerous than previously understood.
When the Census Bureau this month released a new measure of poverty, meant to better count disposable income, it began altering the portrait of national need. Perhaps the most startling differences between the old measure and the new involves data the government has not yet published, showing 51 million people with incomes less than 50 percent above the poverty line. That number of Americans is 76 percent higher than the official account, published in September. All told, that places 100 million people — one in three Americans — either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it.A new Census Bureau measure denotes households pulled out of poverty by benefits or closer to it by certain expenses, and a count suggests they are far more numerous than previously understood.
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WaddieI started with nothing and I still have most of it....Comment
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