Happiness requires a big fat salary? That news story said… “To be well and truly content in Aotearoa, you need an annual income of $193,727. (Or, US$114,597 according to Purdue’s data).” How stupid is that?! You certainly don’t need an Economics degree to know that’s about as wrong as kissing your cousin or Australia beating the All Blacks or vegan cheese. Wrong, wrong and very very wrong. Because happiness doesn’t have a price tag.
Do you think Dr Purdue even knows where eN-Zed is? He or she or they sure don’t know what makes eN-Zedders happy. It’s not a salary number. It’s a day at the beach on a sunny day with a cricket bat and a tennis ball. It’s swimming in crystal clear water. It’s a barbecue in a friend’s backyard with home-made burgers and cold beer. It’s hearing a joke that makes you laugh so much you almost pee your pants, very strong emphasis on almost. It’s picking a ripe apple off a tree and eating it. It’s watching the All Blacks tear an opposition team apart and then shake their hands afterwards. Happiness, I mean really true, deep, profound happiness is all about sensational food, face-tinglingly good red wine (or crispy cold beer), a really absorbing book, a shady tree near the beach, and no one telling you to clean your room or do your homework or ‘don’t you think you’ve eaten enough cake for one day?’
Maybe Dr Purdue has been brain-washed by all that American ra-ra, Apple-Nike-Hershey, ‘be the best version of you’, fake fast-food and smiles, Oprah, cheez-wizz, money-money-money… you know what I mean. Maybe Dr Purdue drank the Kool-Aid.
And double-you tea eff?; researchers at Purdue University (and what a stupid name for a university!) think this is one of the most important things to study? Not malaria, tuberculosis, or polio? Not why kids all over the world still don’t wash their hands after using the toilet, which is one of the reasons why so many kids die of diarrhea-induced dehydration? Or why so many politicians are so dishonest, uneducated and selfish? Another dimwit will get another worthless PhD from another brand-name university for worthless research into a silly topic when there are so many far more important questions to answer.
So…, just to say it again… happiness doesn’t have a price-tag; eN-Zedders have always known that.
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