Back in the day in sociology we read a article called "Thrive" by Dan Buettner. In the article it talked about different factors to happiness and what we need to do to achieve them. Some of them included the work place and social life and how we should do what we want for our selves while being productive at the same time. Looking at that and then comparing it to our own American values of "happiness" it's almost completely opposite. In America if you aren't working you aren't "Thriving". Success is based off of how much money you have and not how happy you feel. People don't do what's right for themselves but do what's right for their wallet. It's just weird to think about about how much of our live revolve around money. It effects all of our every day decisions such as college, food, cloths etc. after reading through this I try now to not look at the price tag of something but it's actual value to me.
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