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An English prof. made an earthshattering discovery about ten years ago — that there is a strong link between having money fall upon you and being happy. No, he didn’t win a Nobel for it, nor for the conclusion to his findings, which was that money buys autonomy and independence. The prof. should have won a Nobel Prize for excessive stupidity instead, especially for his last neologism, that ‘to turn a really unhappy person into a very happy person using money alone would take about £1 million’.
I ain’t so sure about the last one. I gave a member of my family much more than one million quid 20 years ago and the guy is still miserable and angry — mostly at yours truly. That arch-phoney Sigmund Freud was on my side on money matters. He said that happiness is the adult fulfilment of childhood dreams, and children, said Siggy, do not dream of money.
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