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well we've now heard that there have been to lottery winners and the record
powerball jackpot which was five hundred and seventy nine point nine million
dollars
one of these lists that i sold the kansas city area i think at the noon
would be
uh... a location in missouri where it actually was sold
the person is not yet come forward and other one was sold indicators owner
so basically they're going to split the five hundred eighty seven
a five hundred and
fights ever i can't get a clear number it's either five seventy nine point nine
or five eighty seven point five something like that it's a lot of money
that was quick yeah needed num much of a difference there
the numbers were five sixteen twenty two twenty three twenty nine and the
powerball was six lewis in case you're wondering
unknown numbers that i would've paid so in this i'm fascinated by
lottery winners because number one we know that uh... socio economically
most lottery tickets and overwhelming number of water a participants are
people who uh... are not well-off financially right so there's this idea
of uh... of of hitting it big in making it into making it into the one percent
in other words the ninety nine percent spent a lot of money trying to make it
into the one-percent by winning the lottery
but that being said it might graduate research paper was actually on the money
happiness correlation and it's always interesting because you fight you hear
about so many
lottery winners
who end up number one if they're lucky enough not to end up broke because they
overspent
um... the really end up with all sorts of personal problems and they're not any
happier than they thought he than they were before winning even though they
thought they would be and that in my research now this is four year old data
at this point we might have to adjust these numbers but happiness correlated
positively with income
up until the point and this is a cross all countries where you're buying power
reached about ten thousand u_s_ dollars four years ago so in two thousand eight
beyond that you really don't get any happier when you're evil to buy more
stuff
when you're income is more than about ten thousand dollars worth of buying
power and u_s_ two thousand eight dollars
surprising numbers
is that the level of pricing and i think uh...
i think
maybe a little bit more into my initial give my guess would have been there was
more like thirty thousand right that's what i would guess yeah around them but
certainly uh...
uh... it doesn't matter whether you make a hundred thousand here or a million a
year or whether it be in the top
will point one percent uh... there does not seem to be any correlation between
money and happiness that goes beyond basically subsistence level
academe role so many examples which i found which is skate me now of many
countries with very low
standards of living where people are actually very very happy which really
just furthers this idea that even though individually it seems counterproductive
when you think about it broadly yeah there's a bbq
the factors that go way beyond money that contribute to happiness i'm sure
they're sections
unsure when you people out there who
were completely dependent on money to be happy well in in relation to these
powerball winners coral growth was just on fox news saying he has someone on the
ground in missouri
he says it's a little bit too early to call this thing he doesn't know we don't
we don't yet know who won he wants the numbers double-checked we're gonna take
a caring of fox may have been a little premature in calling this thing for
these two people yup and they're going to have a reread of the numbers of area
we're going to do that