{"id":26873,"date":"2010-11-26T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T10:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=26873"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T11:27:10","slug":"money-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/26\/money-and-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Money and Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Measured a different way, the correlation between money and happiness is surprisingly strong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DISMAL  scientists who look at happiness often contend that, beyond a GDP per  capita of just $15,000 (measured at purchasing-power parity), money does  not buy happiness. Up to that point the correlation between the two is  strong, but thereafter it falls away. If this is true then some  heretical conclusions follow: rich America is no happier than poorer  Brazil, so what is the point in people who live in rich countries  working harder to get ever richer? Politicians should concentrate on  maximising the mental health of their voters, rather than the size of  their pay checks. But plot the data another way, on a logarithmic scale  where each increment represents a 100% increase in income per head, and  the relationship between wealth and happiness looks more robust.<\/p>\n<p>(by The Economist)<\/p>\n<p>Osman Kadri Koca<\/p>\n<p>Media Watch-Economist Financial Product Designer<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26874\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26874\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/osman-kadri-koca.gif\" alt=\"money and happiness\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">osman kadri koca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measured a different way, the correlation between money and happiness is surprisingly strong DISMAL scientists who look at happiness often contend that, beyond a GDP per capita of just $15,000 (measured at purchasing-power parity), money does not buy happiness. Up to that point the correlation between the two is strong, but thereafter it falls away. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":26874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}