
The Price Is Righteous
THE CONNECTION BETWEEN money and well-being is simple (as in, the more money we have, the better off we think we are) but also horribly, irreducibly complex. You don’t need more money to improve your well-being; you can just be smarter about how it’s put to use. Instead of buying stock in an arms manufacturer or a tobacco company, for instance, maybe an investor could help to indemnify a group of small biotechnology companies against the failure of their clinical trials. The investor’s return would come from sharing in the upside if the trials succeeded. Or maybe a philanthropist could give