serveguru wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Money and the Pursuit of Happiness
Thomas Jefferson spoke of the inalienable right to the Pursuit of Happiness, but he used the term pursuit in a different way than it is commonly used.  Many have interpreted this literally that happiness is something to pursue, chase or hunt down.  Approached this way, it remains elusive.  Particularly so when this is combined with the belief that money, more money, stuff and more stuff will make us happy, even more will make us happier and insure that we remain happy.  Most folks who’ve tried this will attest that it didn’t yield this outcome for them.  Those who used credit cards or other forms of credit to finance their experiment will attest that the resultant stress from the debt accrued in the process made them even less happy than where they began.
In 1776, the word pursuit referred to practicing something regularly, to make a habit […]

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