Benjamen Wallace-The Price of Happiness

Does price determine our happiness? According to Benjamen Wallace, sometimes it does. Wallace told his audience about a study done on wine and price. People took three bottles of the same wine and put different prices on each of them. Then the taste-testers sampled the wine and all of them said that they liked the most expensive one the most. While this was going on, scientists were also taking MRI's of the test-tasters brains and not only did they say they enjoyed the more expensive wine better, they were actually enjoying the most expensive wine more than the others. So does price determine happiness?

I think that price doesn't determine happiness in a lot of cases but it depends on the person. We all have our simple pleasures in life like riding a bike or reading a book that don't require money. Some people get bored with the simple pleasures and have to go to the extreme like partying on a fancy yacht.

I think that the people who have to go to extremes to be happy are replacing love for money. In Charles Dickens' book, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge had plenty of money to buy whatever he wanted but he was lonely, grouchy old man. Whereas, Tiny Tim could barely walk and his family had almost no money however, he was one of the happiest boys alive. So why is it that Tiny Tim was so happy?

For some people buying random junk or treasures temporarily fill the hole in their hearts that love usually occupates. Trophy wifes are on a lot of the "Houswifes of ..." shows because they are bored and unloved so they fill that hole in their heart with attention from the TV shows and buying really expensive things. People of not such a big income can get all the love and attention they need at home with their family.