The feeling of happy life after being rich

1980, the United States passed the new refugee law, and 5 12 refugees living in Buffalo, new york became legal citizens of the United States. Most of them are stowaways from poor countries, and the purpose of coming to the United States is to seek freedom and happiness.

In 2004, on the 25th anniversary of the promulgation of the new law, these people who benefited from the law held a rally. They admit that their life has been improved since they became American citizens, but their dream of happiness is far from being realized.

Howard hughes is a doctor of law who specializes in refugee issues. When he heard about it, he launched an investigation. First of all, he conducted a comprehensive verification of the identity of the refugees and found that these 5 12 people have one thing in common, that is, they are relatively poor in their original country of residence. In addition, there are some similar experiences. For example, when they came to the United States illegally, they all signed a life-and-death contract with the boatman-as long as they can make a fortune abroad, the shipowner is not responsible for whether they live or die on the way.

Then, Dr. Howard inspected their experience after coming to the United States. He found that these stowaways have a strong dream of making money, and after more than 20 years of hard work, life is not bad. Nearly half of them reached the level of the American middle class by taking risks and suffering.

So, why are they still complaining about not living a happy life? In order to find out the root cause, Dr. Howard investigated them one by one. The following is his investigation record of four of them:

When a fishmonger first came to the United States, he did yellow croaker business in a fish street in Miami, and now he has developed from a small shop to a chain store. For 20 years, I haven't had a day off to crush my competitors, let alone a day off.

A second-hand car commercial and residential building is located in the suburb of Houston, with a villa area of 1, 5 18 square meters. On the second floor is a warehouse with 3,600 used tires and 420 used engines. Seven used cars and six modified motorcycles.

Before 1995, a real estate developer owned the real estate development right of 13 town. He was sentenced to one year and six months in prison for tax evasion, deprived of the right to development and fined 86 million yuan. Now engaged in paint import and export business.

After coming to the United States, I have been engaged in the intermediary of labor export in Haiti, Dominica, Puerto Rico and other countries. Through him, 60% of his family work or live in the United States, and now he has 14 relatives living with him.

Howard's survey report is 730 pages long, detailing everyone's living conditions. After this report was submitted to the State Council, the United States, it was quickly handed over to the Immigration Bureau. Soon after, each of the 565,438+02 refugees in Buffalo, new york, received a booklet. The cover of the booklet says: If a poor man becomes rich, he can't expect to enter the realm of happiness unless he corrects the greed he developed when he was poor in time.

June 5438+1October 65438+May, 2005, the American Caribbean newspaper reported that a rich man from the Caribbean sold his company and planned to live a simple life.

The next day, Dr. Howard received a letter from the US Immigration Service: one of these refugees found happiness after becoming rich.