Money Does *Not* Make You Happier. This Article Is a Lie: The minimum salary you need to be happy in each state.

The minimum salary you need to be happy in each state. 

 A cursory glance though the above article showed roughly $90k to about $130k for all states. According to data from 2018, the latest release, the median household income is $61,891. Notice, this number indicates "household" income. Presumably that means 2 incomes, as most people are married or living with a spouse/lover. The number of kids a family might have would be of huge importance based on additional costs and the usual expenses. Minimum age is still $7.25 an hour...and has not been raised for about 10 years. (Yes, congress gives themselves a raise every single year.)  

Minimum wage annual income would be $15, 080. 

The so called "poverty level" in America is  

  1 person household is $12,49 

   2 person household is $16,910

    3 person household is $21,330  

So, if we were to believe this article....about 99% of all Americans are miserable...due to not having enough money to meet the range quoted state by state to be "happy". 

I've had money and I've not had money. 

(Right now I have about...$1.27 I think, lol.)  

Sending quality time with friends and family, working out, being creative, being a good steward of the land, water and planet, advocating for those without a voice, for those that are disenfranchised, reading, writing, working out, going jogging and to the gym, playing with my cats and dogs, sex, spending time with my husband, cooking, eating, and a plethora of other examples like that are what makes me happy. Sure, money can make life easier from the standpoint of less stress, having financial security, less worry and important details like that, but some of the happiest people I've ever known are on the low, sometimes very, very low end of the income spectrum.  

My point?

Articles like this are are similar to "body shaming" articles that might make one feel bad about themselves because the reader is comparing themselves to some heavily Photo-shopped photos, done by a professional photographer, with state of the art equipment, lights, camera, filters, and so on. "Money shaming" or poverty shaming, or simply using faulty made-up "statistics" about income needed to be "happy" is just wrong. Its not mentally healthy to compare oneself to professional cover models or for people to do any sort of body shaming (with the exception of me mocking limp dicked useless cuckolds of course....giggles at self) and the same should apply to articles like this.  :)

 

Me.

Waiting for the picnic to start. :)

 

[Photo Below Found Online.]  

I found out that our Volkswagen fits in the den. 

Will see what the wife thinks when she gets home.