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Marina Gorbis guest blogs for BoingBoing.net: Achieving Happiness on just $800,000
In today's BoingBoing guest blog, Marina suggests that the former Goldman-Sachs employees find their happiness in more than just money.
Below is an excerpt from the post, which can be read in full here:
I don't know about you but I am feeling kind of bad about those poor Goldman Sachs investment bankers. Just a few months ago they looked so sad (remember those sad guys on the trading floor?). And now, in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, after taking money from American taxpayers, they earn huge profits as if the credit crunch never happened. The 29,400 Goldmanites are expected to take in on average around $800,000 in pay, bonuses, and benefit packages. I can only imagine what this means for the top 400. But I worry that this is just not going to make them happy. And this is because research on happiness reveals some surprising things:
Links to Marina's previous BoingBoing posts:
Personal Transformations in the Internet Age
Socialstructing: Statement of Social Currency
Collecting dead souls in social media
Socialstructing: Bringing social back into our economy and organizations