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Originally Posted by digi
Well.. having no money wont contribute to your happiness so Ive never understood this reasoning. I could see how family / friends / doing something is what brings true happiness but that has nothing to do with money. Just because you get rich doesn't mean you cant have great friends or family.
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Maybe a better analysis to counteract the study (link in first post) would be to compare the rates of depression and correlate that with countries' relative wealth?
COUNTERARGUMENT: "Richer" countries have higher levels of depression because they have the resources for better diagnosis.
It could go back and forth... Regardless, one of the key areas that the article didn't explore is the role of community and traditional notions of identity and its impact on 'happiness'. The richer a country becomes the more it tends to move away from such 'traditionalist' relations and formulate new ones. Example: comparing multi-generational vs nuclear family structures.