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Here's an article about how wealth interferes with happiness:
Interestingly, the scientists found that people in the wealth condition – they’d been primed with all those Euros – had significantly lower savoring scores. This suggests that simply looking at money makes us less interested in relishing the minor pleasures of life. Furthermore, subjects who made more money in real life – the scientists asked all subjects for their monthly income – scored significantly lower on the savoring test. A subsequent experiment duplicated this effect among Canadian students, who spent less time savoring a chocolate bar after being shown a picture of Canadian dollars.I read this as I listen in the background to Harold Budd's Abandoned Cities, after reading a MetaFilter post on "long listening" and wondering if I no longer savor music as much as I did. Dunno. I did listen to part of La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano earlier this week and was surprisingly unmoved...
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