It seems that as long as you can afford to avoid the basic miseries of life,having loads of spare cash doesn't make you very much happier than having verylittle.
看来只要你生活基本不贫困,有很多的余款并不会让你比只有很少余款的人更快乐。
One way of accounting for this is to assume that lottery winners get used totheir new level of wealth, and simply adjust back to a baseline level ofhappiness – something called the “hedonic treadmill”.
其中一个解释是大奖得主习惯了新的财富水平,然后重新调整回到快乐的基线水平——这就是所谓的“快乐水车”。
Another explanation is that our happiness depends on how we feel relative toour peers.
另一个解释是我们的快乐建筑在和同辈人的比较上。
If you win the lottery you may feel richer than your neighbours, and thinkthat moving to a mansion in a new neighbourhood would make you happy, but thenyou look out of the window and realise that all your new friends live in biggermansions.
如果赢了彩票让你觉得比邻居还富有,想着搬进新的邻里的大厦也许能让你开心,但是当你往窗外一看,发现新朋友们都住在更大的大厦里。
Both of these phenomena undoubtedly play a role, but the deeper mystery iswhy we're so bad at knowing what will give us true satisfaction in the firstplace.
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