巨額の富を得た元ベンチャー社長がコンビニでバイトするようになった理由

「幸せってなんだっけ、なんだっけ・・・」この記事を読んで、明石家さんまのこの歌が浮かびました。こんな記事書いたら「一度稼いでから書けよ!」と言われそうですが、きっと天はこんな悩みで苦労しなくても一生働けるようにしてくれているのだ!と思うのです。

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巨額の富を得た元ベンチャー社長がコンビニでバイトするようになった理由(マネーポストWEB) - Yahoo!ニュース

 How a former venture capitalist got a part-time job at a convenience store

When I read this article, this song by Akashiya Sanma came to my mind: "What is happiness? If I write an article like this, people might say, "You should write it after you've made some money! But I'm sure the heavens are making it possible for me to work for the rest of my life without having to struggle with such problems! I think.

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The more money you have, the better - this is probably the common feeling of many Japanese people. In reality, however, there are misfortunes associated with having too much money. For example, the happiness of high lottery winners rises sharply immediately after winning the lottery, but most of them lose happiness after about three months. Norio Tomono, a behavioral economist and lecturer at Meiji University's Graduate School of Information and Communication Studies, says, "In the U.S., follow-up studies have shown that people are happier when they win the lottery.

"According to a follow-up study in the U.S., many high lottery winners go bankrupt afterwards. It's probably a change in consumer behavior that leads to unhappiness.

 The lottery is a luck-based get-rich-quick scheme. If you have a stable and high income, you might think that you would be happier, but that doesn't seem to be the case. According to the latest survey by the Cabinet Office, the highest level of satisfaction is in the 20-30 million yen income bracket, and the level of satisfaction slowly declines above that level. Although not as high as the "poor" with annual incomes of less than one million yen, the "wealthiest" with annual incomes of more than 100 million yen were fifth from the bottom in the 10 levels of household income. Keiko Yatsui, a household finance consultant, says, "If you have savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars, you are not satisfied.

"In some cases, people with savings in the hundreds of millions of dollars ask me for advice because they are worried about their retirement. I once heard a story about a wealthy woman who was locked up by her own children. She said that her children were trying to make her write a will that would be favorable to them.

 Rich people have a lot of people who come to them for money. As a result, there are many cases where people fall into distrust of humanity. In exchange for their ample wealth, they become lonely. Madoka Maeno, a researcher in happiness studies at the Institute for Systems Design and Management, Keio University, says, "I don't trust people, so I don't trust them.

"You can't trust people, so you have no one to turn to in times of need. To put it another way, you can only trust the money you can see in front of you. They earned the money to be happy, but having the money is making them unhappy.

 Even if you are a wealthy person by nature, you will be unhappy if money is the only thing you have in your heart. One elderly woman who lost a lot of money when the stock price fluctuated wildly due to Corona was hospitalized for mental illness because she was obsessed with the fact that she had lost money, even though she had a lot of assets after deducting the loss.

On the other hand, the former president of a venture company made a huge fortune by developing smartphone applications. However, he has now sold the company and is working part-time at a convenience store.

He said, "I couldn't stand the loneliness of not being able to see people because of the Corona disaster. Now I look forward to having tea after work with my colleagues from various backgrounds, including housewives, students, and the elderly.

 For him, working with others for an hourly wage may have been happier than continuing to earn money on his own.

For him, working with others for an hourly wage may have made him happier than continuing to earn money by himself. "Assets that can be compared with others, such as money, housing, status, and honor, are called 'status goods. If you get your own home, you will be more satisfied with your home, but there is no correlation with happiness. When you see other people's 'better homes,' you become envious and your happiness fades away.

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From Josei Seven, November 4, 2021 issue