Please Note: I know that money and salary are slightly taboo topics so before we speak, I want you to know that during our classes this week, I do not want to know how much money you make, I simply want to talk about how much money would make you happy. OK, on to the question.
注釈：お金や収入について話題にあげることは、わずかながらタブーであることは理解していますので、このトピックについて話す前にわかっておいて頂きたいのは、レッスンで話すとき、あなたが今どれくらいの収入があるかを聞きたいのでなく、「どれくらいあればあなたは幸せだと感じるか？」について話し合えたらと思っています。よろしいでしょうか？それでは、本題に入ります。
How much money do you need to be happy? For most of us, there is a real connection between our happiness and the amount of money we make. But this week’s question is, how much money is enough—how much money do we really need to be happy?
Of course, if people don’t have enough money to eat or properly care for themselves or their families, they will not be happy. But the results of a new study that was conducted at Princeton University in the US concluded that for Americans, $75,000 dollars per year ( 6,316,365 Japanese Yen ) seems to be just enough to make someone happy.
The study showed that the lower someone’s annual income was below $75,000, the unhappier they felt. This seems quite obvious, however, the study also showed that when someone’s annual income was more than $75,000 they didn’t have a higher degree of happiness. In other words, even if someone makes for example $150,000 a year, they aren’t any happier on any given day than compared with someone who makes $75,000.
Now this is the tricky part. The authors of the study identified two kinds of happiness, 1) someone’s daily mood and general outlook in life and 2) someone’s true level of satisfaction with their life and their career. This study concluded that someone’s overall mood and general life outlook does not appear to change even though they make more than $75,000 per year.
So how about you? How much money can buy you happiness? Is there some amount that would make you happy? I will look forward to hearing your answers when we speak this week.
Be well and make lots of money!
Keith//
This week’s vocabulary:
connection
関係、つながり
properly
きちんと
results
結果
study
研究
conducted
実施した
concluded
結果を出した
seems
〜のようである
just enough
丁度十分な
annual income
年収
felt
感じた
obvious
明らか
degree
度合い
in other words
他の言葉で言うと、
on any given day
与えられた日
tricky
ややこしい
authors
筆者たち
identified
認識する
outlook in life
人生の展望
true level of satisfaction
真の満足レベル
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