wealth
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How Super Has Become a Taxpayer-Funded Inheritance Scheme for the Rich
Without an overhaul, super tax breaks are set to do little more than boost the inheritances of Australians with well-off parents.
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How Much Free Time Is Too Much Free Time, According to Science
In today’s busy world of work obligations and family responsibilities, free time can feel like an impossible luxury. You may dream of having long, lazy days to whatever you enjoy. But as enjoyable as all that time may seem, it turns out that there can be too much of a good thing: Too much free…
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‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ Is a Sickening Chronicle of Consumerist Excess
Judging by its seasonal omnipresence even 240 years after it was written, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” is undoubtedly one of the most enduring of all holiday tunes, perhaps because it is both catchy, slightly annoying, and fun to sing (a ranking by the New York Public Library likened it to the yuletide equivalent of…
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How Much Money Do You Need To Be Rich?
Living stress-free and spending time with loved ones were cited as the definition of wealth for many people in Charles Schwab’s annual Modern Wealth Index, an online survey of 1000 people in the US between age 21 and 75. Meanwhile, just 11 per cent of people surveyed said their definition was “having lots of money.”