Do We Work To Achieve Happiness?

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Not working and achieving no income provides no form of happiness, yet as people we work knowing we are working towards achieving a bigger income rather than doing nothing at all. Porter says, “Economic growth is the outcome of our pursuit of well-being. It is what makes us happy.”(460). During the pursuit of well-being knowing that we are working to achieve more money provides a sense of happiness. knowing we are stuck with what we have or in some cases we are losing money we decide to work to achieve happiness knowing that what we are working for is something better or larger in income. This happiness ignites a desire to work more to achieve bigger and better things and to achieve more money causing a sense of happiness. Porter says, “American

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