Sex is more important to happiness than money

[Josephus]

Yeah, but one is also far more likely to get weekly sex if one has money

I'd be willing to bet poorer couples fuck more than rich ones.  Fucking is free entertainment.

What I am trying to say is, a poor dude is less likely to find a wife in the first place.

Plenty o' poor marriedz.

[Drakken]

You'll never live like common people
You'll never do whatever common people do
You'll never fail like common people
You'll never watch your life slide out of view
And dance and drink and screw
Because there's nothing else to do

That's easy enough to say if your name is Jarvis Cocker.

[Josquius]

The uneducated poor certainly seem happy.
When youre poor you look at the world differently. You just don't consider these high end things that you're missing.  2 weeks in majorca seems like an amazing once a year treat.
You can't really just imagine yourself but with less money to compare.

[PDH]

The little creatures of nature, they don't know they're ugly.  That's very funny!

[alfred russel]

Jacob, did the study look into whether, in the absence of sex, happiness could be achieved through really frequent masturbation?

[Josephus]

Jacob, did the study look into whether, in the absence of sex, happiness could be achieved through really frequent masturbation?

How happy are you?

[crazy canuck]

The uneducated poor certainly seem happy.
When youre poor you look at the world differently. You just don't consider these high end things that you're missing.

Look up the middle class measuring rod theory.  Which is perhaps even more relevant in this age of social media.

[Martinus]

I wonder to what extent the study may have mistaken "more work" for "more money". I may be reading the study results wrong but it seems like they measured the level of happiness following a significant pay rise. This usually involves a significant increase in duties or at least in responsibility - I wonder if the rise in happiness was more significant had there simply been a cash hand out instead.

[crazy canuck]

I wonder to what extent the study may have mistaken "more work" for "more money". I may be reading the study results wrong but it seems like they measured the level of happiness following a significant pay rise. This usually involves a significant increase in duties or at least in responsibility - I wonder if the rise in happiness was more significant had there simply been a cash hand out instead.

I doubt it.  Workplace studies have identified happiness as being related to autonomy - ie the power to determine how, when and why one will do something.  While it is true that more autonomy normally equates to more responsibility it is a lot better than the alternative in most cases.

[Valmy]

But having both maximizes out your chances

[MadImmortalMan]

I wonder to what extent the study may have mistaken "more work" for "more money". I may be reading the study results wrong but it seems like they measured the level of happiness following a significant pay rise. This usually involves a significant increase in duties or at least in responsibility - I wonder if the rise in happiness was more significant had there simply been a cash hand out instead.

I doubt it.  Workplace studies have identified happiness as being related to autonomy - ie the power to determine how, when and why one will do something.  While it is true that more autonomy normally equates to more responsibility it is a lot better than the alternative in most cases.

Yeah that's true. Four different committees having to tell me it's ok to put solar panels on my own house is annoying as hell.

[Berkut]

This really should not come as any surprise. There have been many studies that have shown only a very shallow connection between having more money and being happier, especially once you are out of the abject poverty range.

Having healthy, fulfilling relationships with others however has been very much shown to contributing to happiness, and having a healthy, fulfilling relationship with your romantic partner would obviously be one of the most important of those...and studies have shown over and over that married couples are happiest when both partners feel like they are getting what they want and need out of it.

Kind of nice to see one study that skips some of those interim connections, but the conclusion is not even remotely surprising.

The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.

[Eddie Teach]

"First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the women."

[Monoriu]

The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.

Because having money and status makes it much easier to pursue relationships 

[garbon]

This really should not come as any surprise. There have been many studies that have shown only a very shallow connection between having more money and being happier, especially once you are out of the abject poverty range.

Having healthy, fulfilling relationships with others however has been very much shown to contributing to happiness, and having a healthy, fulfilling relationship with your romantic partner would obviously be one of the most important of those...and studies have shown over and over that married couples are happiest when both partners feel like they are getting what they want and need out of it.

Kind of nice to see one study that skips some of those interim connections, but the conclusion is not even remotely surprising.

The only thing that sucks about it is that despite it being pretty obvious, there are still so many people out there who don't seem to get it, and instead pursue things like money and status, rather than relationships.

Of course, that all may be true, but that isn't what the study showed as reported. It just showed that for people in relationships that sex was more important to their happiness. Nothing about whether one should prioritize having a relationship over money.