Saturday, March 27, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Walter Russell Mead: Does Money Buy Happiness? Gallup Checks It Out -- Worldwide - '... The Gallup organization has released a new poll based on interviews with people in 155 countries. The question? They asked people to state how well they were doing and what they expected from the future on a scale of 1 (bad) to 8. They then divided up the respondents: if you felt that your present life rates a 7 or above and your future prospects look like an 8, Gallup describes you as "thriving." If your present AND your future rate only a 4 or worse, Gallup classifies you as "suffering." If you fall somewhere in between, you are "struggling." On Gallup's data, the relationship between money and happiness seems mixed...'
