Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 10 months agoI'm not asking to be rich.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoMoney 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.
minus-squareMnemnosyne@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoThat’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.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoThat is fair, but I don’t like the saying that money can’t buy happiness. It absolutely can, in a roundabout way
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