Dennis Prager argues that upper-middle-class adults with family and religious faith are the happiest demographic in America. Financial security removes daily money anxiety, which he calls a major source of unhappiness. Family and religion provide additional stability, though wealth alone doesn't guarantee contentment.
There is one essentially happy group, and that is adults, middle, upper middle class adults with family and religion. That's the one exception to the rule of, uh, that is dominant in our time of the unhappiness dominant in the country. That is the one. Hmm. I'm a member of that. That's me. Upper middle class, family, religion. Now, you'll say, well, all right, upper middle class. That's a big factor, okay? It certainly is a factor. Not, not because I'm what you'd call wealthy, but because I, I don't have to worry on a day-to-day basis about money. That the problem of money is anxiety, unless you are unhealthy and you are a person who was just attracted to money because you have an emptiness in the rest of your life, and so it's filled with a pursuit of money. But otherwise, it's the inner peace that having not to worry about money, that's the great advantage if you have some money. But the major factors, I could prove it. That family and religion, because the middle class that is not upper middle class, if they have family and religion, they're happier too.
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