Jacklyn bought a new laptop on last Thursday, she was very happy. It is easy, we know that new laptop made Jacklyn happy. Often, we believe that possession of material wealth as the happiness, because we have to use the money for almost everything we want in reality. For example: Jacklyn paid money to get a new laptop and money became the source of her happiness. Yet, is material wealth truly make people happy? If the assumption is definite, then we could assume that money can buy happiness. Wait a minute, if happiness can be simply obtained by material wealth, why don’t we pay Jacklyn money to have her happiness? So that, everybody can be equally happy. Unfortunately, our assumption is incorrect. The fact is everybody has a different perspective
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There is unnecessary to further study about this subject if the problem is not serious and harmful. Let’s us begin with the well-being performance. In the article “Americas Lead Highs, Sub-Saharan Africa Lows in Well Being”, Standish and Witter pointed out that Americans’ well-being was 31.3 percent in the Year 2014. However, in their older article “Country Well-Being Varies Greatly Worldwide”, they have highlighted that Americans’ well-being rate was 33 percent in the Year 2013. In this case, the disparity is too obvious, Americans are significantly less happy in the Year 2014 in comparing to the Year …show more content…
On 10th December in the year 2012 ABC News, Dorice Donegan Moore was charged at first degree murder for the death of the Florida lottery winner, Abraham Shakespeare. Soon after Shakespeare won the $31 million Florida lottery prize, he was shot twice in the chest by a 38-caliber pistol on April 2009. This was not the worst yet; in fact, nobody realizes he was dead until his body was found under a slab of cement in a backyard in January 2010. The scariest part is Moore used to be Shakespeare’s close friend, but this “instant fortune” has turned friend to a murderer. Agree it or not, loads of money were not giving Shakespeare happiness but tragedy.
Will you agree on material wealth is inadequate to happiness? Pretty sure it is a “not yet”! An Austrian Businessman Karl Rabeder was giving away his entire $4.5 million assets and decided to live in a small wooden hut in the mountains. In addition, Rabeder shared through The Telegraph “Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come”. From a poor kid to a millionaire, Rabeder has decided to go back to the beginning. This is more than enough to tell us about happiness is not material wealth, otherwise this successful man will never make this kind of decision and believed it was going make him
There is unnecessary to further study about this subject if the problem is not serious and harmful. Let’s us begin with the well-being performance. In the article “Americas Lead Highs, Sub-Saharan Africa Lows in Well Being”, Standish and Witter pointed out that Americans’ well-being was 31.3 percent in the Year 2014. However, in their older article “Country Well-Being Varies Greatly Worldwide”, they have highlighted that Americans’ well-being rate was 33 percent in the Year 2013. In this case, the disparity is too obvious, Americans are significantly less happy in the Year 2014 in comparing to the Year …show more content…
On 10th December in the year 2012 ABC News, Dorice Donegan Moore was charged at first degree murder for the death of the Florida lottery winner, Abraham Shakespeare. Soon after Shakespeare won the $31 million Florida lottery prize, he was shot twice in the chest by a 38-caliber pistol on April 2009. This was not the worst yet; in fact, nobody realizes he was dead until his body was found under a slab of cement in a backyard in January 2010. The scariest part is Moore used to be Shakespeare’s close friend, but this “instant fortune” has turned friend to a murderer. Agree it or not, loads of money were not giving Shakespeare happiness but tragedy.
Will you agree on material wealth is inadequate to happiness? Pretty sure it is a “not yet”! An Austrian Businessman Karl Rabeder was giving away his entire $4.5 million assets and decided to live in a small wooden hut in the mountains. In addition, Rabeder shared through The Telegraph “Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come”. From a poor kid to a millionaire, Rabeder has decided to go back to the beginning. This is more than enough to tell us about happiness is not material wealth, otherwise this successful man will never make this kind of decision and believed it was going make him