You can't buy happiness...

March 12, 2001 7:53 PM

You can't buy happiness... but having > 1.5 million dropped on you can cheer you up.
posted by rdr (4 comments total)

A good way to start winning some happy is to get on the March Madness bandwagon. I signed up for a little pool at Web Entourage and I am will on my way to happiness.
posted by SaltedWound at 6:05 AM on March 13, 2001

I'd be willing to participate in a test of this hypothesis, now who's gonna give me a million dollars? (see, i'm not greedy, a million dollars is less than a million pounds)
posted by dagnyscott at 6:47 AM on March 13, 2001

Don't forget the part where you "forget" to pay your taxes.....
posted by briank at 2:50 PM on March 13, 2001

"If somebody started off being miserable relative to the rest of the population, £1m would be enough to make them more cheerful than most others."

Hmmmm... If my perception of economists started off as "more useful" relative to the rest of the population, reading this article was enough to make them "infinitely close to useless".

posted by fooljay at 3:50 PM on March 13, 2001