Maybe if you are poor, you are more likely to seek out temporary happiness at the cost of longer term consequences, because your life is generally more stressfu

Maybe if you are poor, you are more likely to seek out temporary happiness at the cost of longer term consequences, because your life is generally more stressful. So if you worked another day at the job you hate you are more likely to go get a couple hamburgers from McDonald's than go home and eat some pasta for the same price because you enjoy it more. Poor people are also much more likely to smoke, another activity which trades short term happiness for longer term consequences.