[2012-Feb-22] The Shirt of a Happy Man

[UnclGhost]

I like that the dad appears to be playing a video game using a lime.

[tobias]

What's an overman?

[GUTCHUCKER]

An overlord's husband.

[Yoo-jin]

What's an overman?

I'm supposing it might be a reference to Nietzsche's Übermensch. People sometimes translate it as "Superman" but it can also be translated as "Overman".

[Dindong]

This comic made me say aloud shit shit oh my god shit

it was not a good comic.

[GUTCHUCKER]

This comic made me forget all about this comic after about 5 seconds.
Speaking of which.

[carbonstealer]

It made me forget who I am. Or maybe I just never knew? I don't remember...

[aitan]

And Harun al Rashid skinned the poor man and wore his hide for he had no shirt.

the moral is: stay away from Harun al Rashid.

[Smokefoot]

There are plenty of studies that show wealth (above a certain minimum amount) is not correlated with happiness.

Here is one:
http://www.livescience.com/5462-happiness-wealth.html

Is Zach saying that upper middle class is the minimum wealth amount? That sounds unlikely. Maybe there is still a positive correlation above "poor", but the factors that other studies tell us are important start to have a much larger weight: health, personal relationships, and beliefs.

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

This comic made me say aloud shit shit oh my god shit

it was not a good comic.

What I said was uuuruuuuuugh.
It's a similar sentiment.

[meow?]

There are plenty of studies that show wealth (above a certain minimum amount) is not correlated with happiness.

Here is one:
http://www.livescience.com/5462-happiness-wealth.html

Is Zach saying that upper middle class is the minimum wealth amount? That sounds unlikely. Maybe there is still a positive correlation above "poor", but the factors that other studies tell us are important start to have a much larger weight: health, personal relationships, and beliefs.

Past around ~ $70k-80k a year, (in the USA) income no longer significantly affects happiness. The super rich also tend to be considerably busier and less capable of spending time on leisure activities.

$70k-80k a year is pretty much upper middle class in the USA.

[fignuts]

TLDR

[Dindong]

no, you shouldn't not read it because it was TL


you shouldn't read it because it is NF*


*not funny

[Dane Raider]

Don't waste your time, Dindong. He's not like us.

He's one of the unregistered.

Personally, I'm all in favour of apartheid for the Real Posters and the unregistered because, unlike historical apartheid which was unfair, this is entirely justified, plus the unregistered can always become Real Posters.

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[Kaharz]

There are plenty of studies that show wealth (above a certain minimum amount) is not correlated with happiness.

Here is one:
http://www.livescience.com/5462-happiness-wealth.html

Is Zach saying that upper middle class is the minimum wealth amount? That sounds unlikely. Maybe there is still a positive correlation above "poor", but the factors that other studies tell us are important start to have a much larger weight: health, personal relationships, and beliefs.

Past around ~ $70k-80k a year, (in the USA) income no longer significantly affects happiness. The super rich also tend to be considerably busier and less capable of spending time on leisure activities.

$70k-80k a year is pretty much upper middle class in the USA.

More or less this, depending on where you live and what your expenses are. The key is that people make enough money to easily provide for decent housing, food, entertainment, etc are typically not made happier by having even more money. It really depends on how you define "upper middle class."