Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Thursday, Thanksgiving Day,

November the 23rd, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison,

co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Jeffrey Holt was the caretaker of a mobile home park in Hensdale, a town of 4,200 people,

in the southwest corner of New Hampshire.

His mobile home had no TV or computer.

The legs of his bed went through the floor.

While he collected hundreds of model cars and train sets, as well as classical records and books about history,

he gave up driving a car and rode his lawnmower around town.

He seemed to have what he wanted, but he didn't want much, his best friend said.

However, Holt died earlier this year with a secret.

He was a multi-millionaire.

He had worked as a production manager at a grain

mill and invested his money. In his will, he gave it all away, $3.8 million to the town to benefit

the community in the areas of education, health, recreation, and culture. A town official said,

I know he didn't have a whole lot of family,

but nonetheless, to leave it to the town where he lived in, it's a tremendous gift.

Mr. Holt's benevolence was indeed a gift, which Webster defines as something voluntarily

transferred by one person to another without compensation. Let's consider this definition

and Mr. Holt's example on this Thanksgiving Day. Since six and ten of us are hoping to avoid

politics today, we'll go a different direction. Respondents to a recent poll said they would need to

make about $284,000 a year to achieve happiness. This would be quite a raise

since the median household income in the U.S. is at about $74,000 annually. Since our median net worth

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