Winning Powerball Won T Make You Happy Analysis

Does Money Actually Bring Happiness? In the Forbes article “Why Winning Powerball Won’t Make You Happy”, journalist Susan Adams explores the relationship between coming into fortune and happiness. More specifically, Adams speaks of how winning the lottery can negatively and positively affect the “lucky” winner. Adams writes, “Though there are stories of people whose lives improved after landing a big lottery pay-out, there are seemingly as many winners whose lives got worse” (Adams). After reading this article it is clear that the author is trying to convey to the reader that although winning the lottery does make some people happy, it usually does not improve their overall quality of living. The author's overall message was that many who have the priority of winning the lottery fail to realise that …show more content…
If you’re unhappy, you’re not good at managing money and you’re surrounded by people you don’t trust, a big win will probably make your problems worse” (Adams). Although Adams does explain the ways that a lottery win can negatively affect a person’s life, she confirms that there are times when a lottery win can change a person’s life for the better. I agree that there are situations where a win can positively affect the quality of the winner’s life. A 2006 British study in the Journal of Health Economics found that, “... U.K. lottery winners go on to demonstrate ‘significantly better psychological health.’ [The] study also found that the general mental well-being of winners vastly improved” (Adams). Another situation in which winning the lottery improved the winner’s life was in the case of Sandra Hayes. According to Adams, “ Sandra Hayes, a social worker who was making $25,000 a year when she and 12 of her coworkers won the $224 million Powerball jackpot in 2006. After taxes and splitting the money with her colleagues,