Does Money Make Most People Happy?
Introduction It is almost evident that money makes most people happy. It is an apparent truth for all of us. However if we consider the different tastes of happiness,then it is debatable whether money actually makes us happy on most occasions or not. There is a saying of conventional wisdom that money cannot buy you happiness. Some popular research work done since last decade shows that people have a propensity of feeling happy with more money they make until a point of time they reach $75,000, every year,at par. However a new study conducted by University of Pennsylvania shows that the wellbeing of people rises with the amount of money they make which even goes beyond $75000 ( Ahuvia, 2008) . Therefore human happiness is inextricably linked with the amount of money earned. When happiness is measured by experts in their research work, they considered the emotional well-being of people for their kind of feeling on a regular basis and their rate of satisfaction in their overall lif...