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Final-Fan said:

But isn't YOUR idea conjecture as well? Why do you consider your idea more likely or valid than mine? Or don't you?

(And I don't concede that there IS no way to get a good idea of this, but that I have no idea if such studies exist yet, let alone what they conclude.)

Not at all.  Mine is based off of the general study that happiness hasn't increased across the ages even though general wealth and cost of living has increased... and that happiness doesn't even really correlate with wealth. (Unless people are so poor that there actually well being is at risk.)

It actually seems fairly zerosum...

and the rich aren't necissarily on top when it comes to this happiness and "Standard of Life" depending on which values you perfer in the ratio.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d30b622b-f238-4167-adbd-07f484475023&k=49549