After reading Bound to Buy article,
I found out that even more categories could be out there because I am not under
any of these categories! Although I remember when I was a teenager I had a hard
time to say no to sellers. Sometimes I really was just looking at items, but I
got fooled with the sellers who were trying to tell me that oh that cloth looks
perfect on you, and I couldn’t resist to saying no. This kind of behaviors fell
into category “The Hapless Negotiator”. In addition, there are sometimes that I really like something,
but I hesitate to buy it. As a result, after few days of looking and not
finding the exact thing, I have to buy something similar but more expensive and
at the end the similar and more expensive item does not even makes me happy.
In general, people in our
society are getting used to find their happiness in materials consumption. They
surround themselves with unnecessary stuff with one main reason “buying this
makes me happy”. Statistics show that having more income does not particularly
increase rate of happiness. Keep this in mind that affluent people often fail to
find their happiness in their material wealth. People can live happier by being
less materialistic
I would agree that just being wealthy does not make someone happy however it does not hurt. The “I am rich on life” only carries you so far. It is a fact that not having enough money is the second leading cause of divorce. Not having enough money to do the things you want will definitely affect the rate of happiness. The people that "surround themselves with unnecessary stuff" are the reason we continue to progress in the world. Without people buying the items there would be no income to continue to create new technologies. If we just lived with what is necessary food, water, sleep, and shelter sometimes. We would not be in school right now here is a number over forty percent of the world is uneducated.
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