Yesterday The New York Times spit out a very important, "fit to print" article whose entire point could have been summed up with a single throw pillow from your Nana's needlepoint days: money doesn't make people happy; in fact, sometimes it makes them sad and stubborn. Sure, you could have figured as much after watching a single Amy Winehouse meltdown video on any crap tabloid show, or after taking a good look at the hardened addict Corey Haim, former boy prince, has become, but then you wouldn't be spoon-fed, would you? And the Times always uses so many words!

“Superbly well-to-do people tend to have much less of an impetus to work through things now,” Dr. Stone said. “They have so many opportunities to seek gratification that they’re not hurting in the same way. I’m thinking of a narcissistic and unmarried patient in his late 40s who, in another time and under most circumstances, you’d have said missed the boat. He could get gratification through his wealth and move from one model to another, so that he didn’t really need to maintain a relationship.”

AMAZING! Did anyone else know that very wealthy men regularly get to have sex with vapid women? And get this: famous people are wary of the media.

One patient with whom he had been making progress, Dr. Karasu said, walled himself off from him ever more after a business accomplishment made him famous and pushed his considerable wealth to stratospheric levels. “I said, ‘What is happening to you that you are regressing now, when you are thriving?’ ” Dr. Karasu recounted. “He said, ‘The higher up the monkey goes,’ ” the easier it was for the public to catch a glimpse of his posterior. “He was terrified that the world was out to make a fool of him,” Dr. Karasu added.

The article goes on to explain that many rich people grow to experience a "great disenchantment" with the world in which they live, a feeling of disconnect with things not relating to money and success. Thus, it's no wonder this is second most e-mailed article on the Times Web site (accessible by iBerry!).