Why were these jobs with better pay and higher social status less likely to produce happiness?

为什么这些收入高、社会地位高的工作却很少会带来幸福呢？

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Concubinage is the state of a woman or youth in an ongoing, quasi-matrimonial relationship with a man of higher social status.

妾制是妇女或未成年少女与社会地位较高的男人的准婚姻关系。

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New research showed a man becomes instantly more desirable to women and seems to have a higher social status if he dresses in red.

一项研究发现，在女人眼中，男人穿红衫比其它颜色更有吸引力，看起来社会地位更高。

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One study suggests that people who appeared more confident achieved a higher social status than their peers.

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In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.

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Researchers at the University of California found that over-confidence is often driven by a desire for a higher social status and that pursuit of this status often resulted in more material or career rewards.

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