Money doesn’t buy happiness. However is does buy opportunities to experience happyness, if spent well.
My camera itself doesn’t bring me happiness, but the enjoyment of using it to take photos and later look at them brings me happiness.
That’s an excessively pedantic way to put it. That’s kind of like saying a heater doesn’t warm you, it warms the air, which warms you.
That is fair, but I don’t like the saying that money can’t buy happiness.
It absolutely can, in a roundabout way
Money can’t solve all my problems. It would solve a great many and allow for the pursuit of happiness to go smoother, and stress free; but the money itself will not purchase happiness or make me happier.
Money don’t buy happiness, but no money buys a lot of misery!
This is exactly it. It doesn’t really buy happiness to a large degree, but it does remove so many problems and worries that you get to spend time on your happiness.
I think the amount of improvement to your life, money brings is on a logarithmic curve. The more you have the less it matters. So it seems logical to take from those where the impact on life is least and give some of it to those it matters most
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but at least in this particular socioeconomic system, it buys essential resources for survival, which allows you to fulfill the lower tiers of Maslow’s Pyramid and therefore allows you to pursue the things that actually grant you happiness. You can indeed have money and still not be happy, but at the same time, the vast majority of people who do not have enough money are not happy.
I’ve got 99 problems and at least 98 of them can be solved with a fair wage and eating the rich
I used to be on medication for depression until I got a high-paying job. Turns out being poor was the root to most problems in my life.
Is it sarcasm?
Actually not sarcasm. I literally was on medication and then I got a good job and I don’t need it anymore. I’m mildly sure I still have depression but I’m much happier in my life and nowhere near risk of self-harm anymore.
I mean, SSRI’s are sometimes known to permantantly fix the brains serotonin levels after a limited period of application, so it might’ve still been the drugs (Or a combination of both).
Cool that you’re doing good, tho.
^why is always the furries with the high paying job…^
^why is always the furries with the high paying job…^
My best guess is because furries in general are very into STEM fields and those happen to pay a lot of money. There’s also a high correlation between being a furry and being on the autism spectrum, so if your special interest happens to be STEM-related then it’s cheat codes for big money and being great at your job. Furries have a ton of correlated attributes, e.g. 80%+ of us are queer, and they’re very interesting as a social phenomenon. I hope someone someday figures out what causes furries, because it’s more complicated than nature or nurture.
Same friend! Constant panic attacks that send me to the ER which would leave me with a giant bill. Making 3x my former income and life is good and got off all the meds. Money solves a shitload of problems.
Money might not buy happiness, but it sure as hell solves a lot of problems that make people unhappy.
- Not worrying about having a roof.
- Not worried if they can afford to eat.
- Not worried about their body being sick and seeing a doctor.
The question is whether someone has “enough” money. Until you can live comfortably, more money DOES buy more happiness. Once someone can comfortably live and engage with interests, more money doesn’t buy more happiness.
When someone says, “money doesn’t buy happiness.” what they’re actually saying is they have enough money and they do not understand how poverty works.
I don’t want to be filthy rich because I think I’d do a lot of dumb things more than I would doing charitable things.
I just want to be paid enough so it doesn’t feel like I look at how little I have left to play around going “eh, I’m okay with this” when I know I’m not okay with this in the back of my mind.
You don’t have to “spend” all your money. Live frugally, invest the rest, then retire early or donate it or something. Spending your whole paycheck is very bad at any income level, but it turns out when you’re poor you don’t get a choice.
When you don’t make enough to survive, spending your whole paycheck is not bad because that is all you have.
Yeah that’s why I wrote that.
Spending your whole paycheck is very bad at any income level, but it turns out when you’re poor you don’t get a choice.
It is NOT bad though. That is very judgemental.
It is objectively bad. Spending your whole paycheck means you live month-to-month, and any unexpected expenses can and will sink you and send you into further poverty. It is not financially healthy to live without an emergency fund or investment savings for the future. Just because you do not have enough money to accomplish this doesn’t mean it’s not bad.
I’m not intending to be “judgmental” while saying this - it’s important to recognize the problems that poverty causes.
They ARE living paycheck to paycheck, and most likely not by choice.
Not having enough income to save is a bad situation. The act of spending all of your paycheck so you can eat and survive IS NOT BAD.
Saying someone that is forced to live paycheck to paycheck that they are making a bad decision by eating is a very dickish thing to do.
At this point you are intentionally misreading the word “bad” to mean “bad decision” instead of “bad situation”. I’ve already explicitly explained that’s not what I meant so I don’t know what you want me to reply with.
You don’t have to “spend” all your money
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Spending your whole paycheck is very bad at any income level, but it turns out when you’re poor you don’t get a choice.
Hi, the first snippet is in response to the commenter’s quote: “I don’t want to be filthy rich because I think I’d do a lot of dumb things more than I would doing charitable things.”
To which I replied that being rich doesn’t mean they need to spend all their money.
Time to build a massive mansion and a literal castle and an underground train system connecting them able to be operated by one person (ie me) because fuck other people.
Money does not buy happiness. But poverty sure causes a lot of misery.
Money does buy happiness. A lot of happiness. I am happy as fuck.
You ever been so happy you had to say it out loud so everyone knows? Lol
No i have money. Having no monetary problems and the resulting bliss is happiness
I never said you didn’t, but to clarify, usually you don’t have to say it when you’re happy. I guess unless you’re doing the song and clapping your hands.
I just want to get rid of the whole saying. Money does buy happiness. People saying otherwise just don’t want you to be wealthy
Money doesn’t buy happiness.
What it does is eliminate and prevent most causes of human unhappiness, and practically all unhappiness based in meeting basic human needs.
And I’m sorry, but daddy not being proud of you or mommy dying young when you have means doesn’t equate to the misery of rooting through a dumpster out of hunger or having a pig kick you out of an underpass into the rain to die of exposure.
Dude I’m talking about important things and you act insulted like a child. Go f ur granny
Not agrueing at all that those few should starve, but a container of grain costs 25ct/pound.
Noone will die of hunger.
Excessive amounts of money doesn’t by happiness.
Kind of like how money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is root of all evil. Or how power doesn’t really corrupt good people, but it certainly attracts corrupt people and allows terrible people to act on their terrible ideas.
Well I’ve just got a chinchilla and those guys are cute little fuckers. So yeah I’m just bought some happiness.
Although possibly if I had spent time slightly more money tgey would have a less squeaky wheel, so perhaps what money has really bought sleepless nights.
