Nobility in poverty. What a joke. Try living in poverty and see how happy you are. Real poverty.

See what happens to your "happiness" when one of your children is sick and you can't afford a doctor.

Being an ignorant kid and not knowing you are poor does not equal "happy". Misery as normalcy is not happiness.

100 years ago, just about 50 percent of the American population lived on farms. Backbreaking work from sunup to sundown. No tractors to help relieve the labor, either. Horse plowing. That's hard work. Imagine half the country still doing that today and tell me we'd all be happier.