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March 07, 2005
The 20 Percent Solution
Andrew Hacker wrote in his book Money that given the opportunity, people believe that all their desires would be fulfilled with only an average of a 20% increase in income. I've always thought that was a surprising finding, but I think it's quite true.
This morning I have a bit of silly empirical proof. As a time-waster since I have nothing to do but sit around the house and wait for a job to come knocking on my door, I ventured over to HumanForSale.com and entered the real facts about me. According to this first survey:I am worth $2,390,882.00 on HumanForSale.com
Then I changed my SAT Score, height and a few things about me that I wished were true and got the following score: I am worth $2,615,454.00 on HumanForSale.com
I believe that this means that I am living up to my class expectations of myself. I did check the difference between black and white. It was zero.
Posted by mbowen at March 7, 2005 10:22 AM
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