The ‘pseudo-affluent'

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Stop Acting Rich… and start living like a real millionaire
Thomas J. Stanley
( http://www.wiley.com/)

Unhealthy assumptions

You can't drive your way to happiness, yet some people believe otherwise, rues Thomas J. Stanley in Stop Acting Rich… and start living like a real millionaire. “They may see some fellow driving a fully accessorised BMW, Corvette, or Cadillac and assume something about him. They whisper to themselves, ‘There goes a happy guy. If I had that car instead of my Toyota, I would be off the far end of the happy scale.'”

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