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There’s an interesting story in Germany’s Der Spiegel this week about the villagers in the Spanish town of Sodeto, who recently won a €700million lottery and are all now worth either six or seven figure sums. The article draws comparisons with southern Italian village of Peschici, where villagers won €32 million in 1996 though ended up miserable (and broke) ten years on.
“The residents had made nothing but bad investments. In the end, some Peschici residents envied their fellow villagers who had spent their money on cocaine and travel right away,” Der Spiegel noted.
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“According to a study by Harvard Professor Dan Gilbert, lottery winners are often as unhappy as paraplegic accident victims within a short time. ”
Professor’s Gilbert’s study was covered in the Canadian press several years earlier.
“Sure you’re ecstatic at first,” his colleague professor Ted Wilson said,
“Winning the lottery tends to have a terrible effect on social relationships. People almost always get jealous and people lose their friends and their family members. And they lose what really matters, the people in their lives.”
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