If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right [pdf]

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Post by daniel31x13 » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:11 PM UTC

If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right [pdf]
scholar.harvard.edu

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Post by ranting-moth » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:19 PM UTC

Paper without date on it? Authors credentials not listed?

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Post by albert_e » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:21 PM UTC

Conclusion:

> Money can buy many, if not most, if not all of the things that make people happy, and if it doesn’t, then the fault is ours.

Is that a grammatically sound sentence?

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Post by itishappy » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:21 PM UTC

ranting-moth wrote: post #2

Paper without date on it? Authors credentials not listed?

Nov 12, 2010 (guessing from the url)

https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/daniel-gilbert

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Post by neogodless » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

albert_e wrote: post #3

Conclusion: > Money can buy many, if not most, if not all of the things that make people happy, and if it doesn’t, then the fault is ours. Is that a grammatically sound sentence?

Listen, it sounds like what you hear here is, possibly, not what they mean here, but what can you say?

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Post by fullshark » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

What if people don't actually want money and want upward social mobility which is correlated with money?

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Post by gniv » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

ranting-moth wrote: post #2

Paper without date on it? Authors credentials not listed?

It's a bit of a classic, from 2011: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10577...

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Post by 082349872349872 » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:23 PM UTC

albert_e wrote: post #3

Conclusion: > Money can buy many, if not most, if not all of the things that make people happy, and if it doesn’t, then the fault is ours. Is that a grammatically sound sentence?

Diagram it and find out

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Post by CharlesW » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:24 PM UTC

albert_e wrote: post #3

Conclusion: > Money can buy many, if not most, if not all of the things that make people happy, and if it doesn’t, then the fault is ours. Is that a grammatically sound sentence?

The structure is complex, but I believe it is.

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Post by johnthuss » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 4:24 PM UTC

> research suggests that people are often happier when they spend their money on experiences rather than things

I concur.