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.
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.