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Money alone does not make you happy, it should also shares his gold and land - have said the legendary U.S. comedian Danny Kaye. A new study gives him quite: Financial gain is not cold, no matter how much he already has.
The question to be answered, what happiness actually is, is not as difficult as last question, because for something halfway lenses in an extremely subjective feeling biotope is sought, especially since the ruling on a successful life until its end, and definitely only from a position outside of this life, like it can be other completely in the competence of individual inwardness that belongs to it goes. A verdict actually impossible situation.
The ancient Greeks, like Aristotle, knew: The single life can not be considered in retrospect appear to have succeeded if his late relatives and friends into the accident has encountered. Some left with debts or dirty secrets, only through the death appears to have become. Sun is also a kingship not as successful, if the policy which the monarch has so far pursued, the land after his death led to the disaster.
The answer to the question of the true happiness is especially difficult because it is so simple seems to be to give them. Most believe in the proverbial phrase: money does not make you happy. The physicist Albert Einstein said: "The best things in life are not the one for the money." That's true. Some money bag is internally hollow and unfulfilled, saves money in the material existence and may make happy, but to the question of the meaning of this happy little existence contribute. Other hand, money can be happy, even if you do not go as far as the U.S. comedian Danny Kaye, who said: "Money alone does not make you happy. There are still stocks, gold price and land to do."
Only recently have two distinguished economists from the American University in Pennsylvania, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, a study in which they are over a longer period the evidence of poor and rich people from different countries have collected and evaluated. They come to the conclusion that, despite cultural differences estimates of happiness to people all over the world believe that they would be happier if the average income rise by three percent, no matter how rich or poor the country is in absolute terms, and they argue more money to make themselves happier, already have enough of it.
Long time it was the opposite: U.S. researchers kept over the years to believe firmly, happiness depends mainly from the economic success of individuals, which lies at a lower annual income of about $ 80,000 - who earn less, be more dissatisfied, who however, deserve more, not much happier. However only once a certain threshold of wealth is exceeded, it was thought, not least as a result of an analysis of the Japanese economic miracle, fly those fortunate effect of making money, the poorer nations is clearly observed.
The new, 2008 study from Pennsylvania known now says: Money is not everything, but just there is a saturation point from which to gain the financial profiteering is cold.
The boundless greed of some top managers in the Winter 2008 / 2009 as one of the causes of one of the biggest financial crises in the history of money - a global mass disaster was named and complained: Here it is more appropriate than free lust scientific record.
In January 2009 threw one of the major industries in Germany in front of a train: Adolf Merckle, the 74-year-old Swabian chief of companies such as Ratiopharm, Kaessbohrer and Heidelberg Cement. The Lord of about 120 companies, with assets of ten billion dollars in the year 2008 place 94 of the richest people in the world received (according to U.S. magazine "Forbes"), had been disastrous to the stock market verspekuliert: To view the high debt, the it and after the takeover by HeidelbergCement had accumulated, no additional loans to be able to operate, he had too much money on falling share prices of VW, which will have permanently increased. Merckle would have even without the purchase of building materials company had ausgesorgt: Forest ownership, the castle Hohen Luckow, a separate ski lift in the Kleinwalsertal, and many others testify rich wealth, a little to reduce certainly would have been possible without the status of the successful entrepreneur playfulness. But the fortune, which is at issue in this case, plays in a different league.
Journalist Rainer Hank wrote - in the business section of the Sunday newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine "of 11 January 2009 - the spectacular suicide of billionaire Blaubeurer: Merckle was "an adventurer" was comparable to the "great American entrepreneurs of the twenties of the last century." Moreover, "one player, one who as entrepreneurs, speculators and borrowers always fully informed on the risk ... 'Thrill' cites the sociologist Urs Stäheli the speculators accompanying feeling of happiness, a difficult word translatable, which is a kind of thrill, a kick believes that the the emotions and the mind starts to flush and voltage offset. It is not just about the anticipation of the big financial happiness that one hopes to attain: It is much more about the enjoyment of that magical moment in which we do not know what the future will bring. The attraction of risk is driving us in an ambivalent situation, an extraordinary state of fear lust. The Thrill of the speculators is a kind of noise condition the same, with no surprise that gambling can be addictive. "
A game - the bank bet on falling Volkswagen share price - it was, finally, the gambler Merckle only fascinated, but then brought to the event. The luck factor is money that is not simply the sum of effort and yield, but ultimately as irrational as the sentimentality of love a pair at full moon.
In Anglo-Saxon world is the reflection on the relationship between money, wealth and happiness to everyday business, but depends not least of which the acceptability of a market economy from. The English philosopher John Locke stated already 1689, so 87 years before the American Declaration of Independence - the "pursuit of happiness" (The Pursuit of Happiness) explicitly as a fundamental human fixated: "The highest perfection of a rational nature is the relentless pursuit of true and everlasting happiness. " Material success is certainly meant for Locke a lot of luck. Unfortunately, it is never permanent.
So what does "true" and "permanent" in relation to happiness? First thing is clear: happiness, no matter what, wants to continue. Also because a happy, every moment of the abrupt end of this pleasant state of mind must be his good fortune did not quite enjoy it - a desire to end this time. "Truth" because "permanent" happiness - what is it?
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