Help!
26 Apr 2009
I've been thinking recently about a study I heard about a few years back that basically observed that, if people were in a situation of complete equality, they were unhappy. Given a small degree of inequality, people were generally happy. Given a great degree of inequality, people became unhappy again. I think I heard this study detailed on NPR, but don't hold me to that.
I'm currently tooling around the etherwebs to try and find this piece, but if either of my two readers happens to know of it offhand, please let me know.
Update:
Good lord, I just Google Scholared "+inequality +happiness" and got a crapton of papers about this very topic. I guess no need to find the one that originally sparked my query when I have 100 others to wade through.
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I.
27 Apr 2009 8:10 pm
I heard that story, too, and I would also guess that it was on NPR--maybe This American Life? I glanced over the TAL archives, but couldn't immediately place it.