Comparing your income
Is any exemption in QL!!??
Comparing your income with those of family and friends is a recipe for unhappiness, a study has suggested.
Researchers analysing data from a Europe-wide survey found three-quarters of those asked thought it important to compare their incomes with others.
But those who compared salaries seem less content, especially if they looked at those of friends and family rather than work colleagues.
The paper in the Economic Journal also found the poor were most affected.
The researchers, from the Paris School of Economics, used data from the European Social Survey covering 19,000 participants in 24 countries.
They found that those who compared their incomes with others tended to be less happy.
flan thats right it genius like us that keep those muppets there in the first place. Imagine if we stopped working!
you cant compare your income to the doormen that pick you up off the floor in a nightclub when you are drunk can you? :0) cos i guess they are are above you when picking you up??!!?? :0)
i always compare my income to the muppets employed above me.
i kinda think its a nonsence thread - no offence kanmano
Frugaluga it does not matter and you are not lost.
with your income and can support your family and enjoy life what does it really matter?? im a bit lost now?
Grass always looks greener on the other side.
Then obviously you belong to the minority one forth :)..as per the research 3 quarters find it important.
Shapil - I Interpret that 'who compare their incomes with others will be less happy'.
comon kanmano...are you challenging the research that you quoted?
Why we should compare.... be happy with whatever we get...
Im sure if you handed them a bottle of cold water just before they collapse of heat stress, they would be your friend for life! poor guys
Frugaluga- They couldn't find time to make friendship
with the construction workers here - compare wages and feel good about yourself.... god knows the employers do!!!!
They will be happy if they compare their income to someone who makes less than them .. and they will be unhappy if they compare it to somebody who makes more.