My kids get these magazines with puzzles and interesting nature facts in them, and sometimes the puzzles involve looking at a picture and circling the things that don’t belong. You can play a similar game with the following picture:
That comes from a Wall Street Journal article entitled “The Pay Raise People Say They Need to Be Happy.”
If you haven’t spotted the thing that doesn’t belong in the picture above, I’ll spoil it for you: It’s that every income group says they need more, and those who have that more say they need more, and those who have that more say they need even more. And so on.
Money can and would solve some basic problems for folks in the lower three income brackets especially. But, as the picture above makes plain, those of us in the higher income brackets appear to have problems that money cannot solve.
Maybe we should focus on those problems, and maybe we should be open to solutions that don’t involve a higher income?
Meaningful Returns 