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Do You Have What it Takes to be a Millionaire?

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  1. PatO

    PatO DI Forum Luminary Highly Rated Poster Showcase Reviewer Veteran Marines

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    PatO, Jul 31, 2013
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    Good quiz but some of those questions were judgement calls. Darned straight I would be happier with $1,000,000 a year than 74,000.:D
     
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    You're right! B. Probably not. Studies show that even $1 million doesn’t buy happiness. is correct.


    Money can't buy love, and it can't buy contentment either – or so says a 2010 study out of Princeton University. The report found that people generally get happier as they make more money, at least until they hit the $75,000 mark. At that point, things level off.

    A higher income did impact participants' overall evaluation of their lives, however. Someone taking home $300,000 a year will feel more successful and secure than someone making minimum wage. But on a day-to-day basis, at least, a college teacher making $74,000 a year should feel just as happy as a high-paid chancellor.


    SCORE: 10 out of 10 correct
     
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    Maybe money can't buy happiness, but I'd find it more comforting to be crying in my $100k sports car parked in the driveway of my mansion than crying on a bicycle parked next to the dumpster.

    I think the reason many people who are rich seem to not be as happy is because of their personality. Many of the rich have a strong urge to always accomplish more.....which is why they didn't settle for that teacher's salary in the first place. Both my parents were teachers, both happy and content people, but I knew many teachers that were just downright miserable. Happiness is determined by the individual, I don't attribute it to a person's salary. For me, money is happiness.
     
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    Happy is not the one who can get what he wants, but the one who wants what he got.
     
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    Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it sure as hell can make misery more enjoyable!

    Larry
     
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    If someone gave me that much money, just follow me. see how that makes me happy... haa haa
     
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    Ok we get it, you dont like Wrye beacuse of some little clash in an earlier thread or something.
    But you need to take a chill pill and relax a bit because youre just spewing personal insults with no weight behind them.
    English is my second language and even i understood what he was trying to say with his comment (hint he wasnt commenting on his own personal situation).
    So calm down before you make a total fool of yourself.
     
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    I think it's funny that someone might assume that you would not have a loving wife and good cook just because you had a little wealth or that you would become an unhappy miser, there is a lot of good that could be done if one had extra money.
     
    robert k, Jul 31, 2013
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