Income Inequality And Happiness Summary

In “Income Inequality and Happiness” (2011), the authors Shigehiro Oishi, Selin Kesebir, and Ed Diener explain the relationship between the hapiness and national income inequality for Americans. According to Shigehiro, Selin, and Ed (“Income Inequality and Happiness”, 2011, p.1096-p.1097), they use the result of the “General Social Survey” to present there is a negative correlation between income gap and blessedness for Americans. Specifically, Americans will be happier when it comes to equality of revenue. Moreover, Shigehiro, Selin, and Ed (p.1097) indicate that Americans believe they are not treated and had to trust when there are differences growing in the income. Besides, the unfairness and less trust are the reason for the negative correlation …show more content…
I agree with this point. Firstly, I believe that people who is in the low-income groups will pay more attention to income due to they always be troubling by diversity problems which related to the lower revenue. Therefore, they feel lower happiness due to they invariably plagued by personal difficulties which comes from the lack of money. Secondly, most individuals are worse off due to the growth of income gap bring most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few who is in the group of top-income. Moreover, the rich are becoming richer, and the poor are becoming poorer. Therefore, the life turns into a harder for the lower-revenue people, and it leads them to become misfortune and sadness. In short, as Shigehiro, Selin, and Ed say, the growing income gap will reduce the happiness for the low-income interviewee