Stupid researchers try to find a downside to being rich....From MyFoxDC -- (NewsCore) - An overflowing wallet can buy you happiness but it does not guarantee respect, a worldwide study published Thursday found.
Researchers asked 136,000 people in 132 countries around the world about what made them happy, and whether they felt respected.
They found that happiness increased with income but people still craved respect and admiration from their friends and family no matter how much money they had in the bank.
I'm sorry but that's a croc! Wanting to posses a lot of money and wanting the respect and admiration from family and friends are two independent human desires and having one does not preclude or even influence the other. This is a false association created by researchers who think that they don't make enough money as researchers and teachers, so rather than do something that earns more, they pretend to value the respect and admiration of family and colleagues for being researchers more than the acquisition of wealth.
This is a common meme among academicians who believe that the research and teaching they do is vastly more valuable than private-sector pursuits because it contributes to human knowledge and improves the human condition. And it is the basis for their incessant whining about not making enough money. Their argument is typically, "Sure, I could make a lot more money competing in the private market place but, I would be selling out the lofty discipline of academia and my peers would not respect or admire what I did."
Who cares what others think? Do what makes you happy and let everybody else take a hike.
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