Money can buy happiness, but up to what point? And does working more make us miserable? And will you be happier if you start your own company? Here's what the research tells us...
金钱可以买到幸福，但能买到多少幸福呢?另外，工作越多会让我们痛苦吗?如果经营自己的公司会更幸福吗?以下是研究告诉我们的结果：
1) Generally speaking, richer countries are happier countries. But since many of these rich countries share other traits -- they're mostly democracies with strong property rights traditions, for example -- some studies suggest that it's our institutions that are making us happy, not just the wealth.
通常说来，富有的国家幸福指数更高一些。然而，由于许多这些富有的国家具有其他一些特性——比方说，这些国家大多比较民主，具有强大的财产权的惯例——因此一些研究显示，是我们的体制使我们幸福，而不仅仅是财富。
2) Generally speaking, richer people are happier people. But young people and the elderly appear less influenced by having more money.
通常说来，富有的人幸福指数更高一些。然而，年轻人和老年人似乎受金钱的影响更小一些。
3) But money has diminishing returns -- like just about everything else. Satisfaction rises with income until about $75,000 (or perhaps as high as $120,000). After that, researchers have had trouble proving that more money makes that much of a difference. Other factors -- like marriage quality and health -- become more relatively important than money. It migh
