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If people lived below their means instead of having the best that their salary can buy, they wouldn’t need more and more. If someone has a $50,000 a year salary they probably have a $20,000 car. If someone has a $100,000 salary they probably have a $60,000 car. Same with house, phone, whatever other expenses they have. Putting themselves into these situations where they would feel like they need more to pay the bills they’ve put themselves into.
This topic has been studied already. Money does relate directly to “happiness” (wellbeing mostly) up to a certain number. Varies from country to country, but when you are below your basic needs plus minor extras, money has a lot of impact.
Once you pass that number, money can’t do much else for your happiness. If you’re unhappy at that point, you will be similarly unhappy if you had more money. After a higher limit, excess money actually starts bringing new problems.
Money is like oxygen. When you don’t have it, it’s all you can think about. When you have enough, you forget about it and makes no difference.
There are different types of resources for different types of needs. People have different dreams that requires different thresholds to meet. Someone self-sabotaging themselves by needing more by living outside their means isn't showcasing that having real needs met doesn't provide happiness, just that they are creating needs they don't need (and problems they don't have to have). I think I read somewhere that 70k a year is where people's needs are typically met and having more doesn't drastically increase their happiness.
You are describing hedonic adaptation. However, I disagree that someone who is homeless wouldn't be happier with their necessities met. Of course, there are diminishing returns where having more won't make you substantially happier as you already have all your needs met and don't "need more". However, people will most certainly be happier at lower brackets having more if having more resources opens up more avenues to happiness, like having medical expenses paid, having a house, being able to afford a large family.
Yeah, money and “happiness” relate similarly to a logarithmic curve. It’s very impactful at the lower range, but quickly becomes flat after you cover your basic needs plus minor extras.
Also money alienates people. With larger amounts of money, the anxiety and paranoia becomes more relevant, eventually degrading friendships and family dynamics.
All of a sudden, in your head, everyone is only after your money.
This is very true. Most people are poor at financial management and no amount of money would be enough for them. They would simply adjust their living for their higher salary.
Me and the wife did the opposite. We lived very frugal. When we got pay raises, that was just extra money to save and invest.
Well, think about it. If you're continuously getting yourself in debt no amount of money will make you any happier because you're still going to end up in the same situations.
That's not really what the saying "money doesn't buy happiness" refers to. It is more the idea that the things make a person truly happy are not things you can buy with money. Love, friendship, etc. Obviously, the typical Redditor disagrees
If there's one thing I've learned on here it's that people don't like when you have money and they don't. Same applies to real life. I think you're getting one over on them.
The one thing I've learned about having money is that more people ask for it and pretend like you owe them something.
The typical redditor also complains that they are broke all the time. So does most of the real world.
It's actually sad because people act like good financial management is bragging but it's not like I had a million dollar salary. I had an average American salary for my line of work I just didn't blow it and put myself in debt.
Right, people stink at saving money. But the saying assumes a person has more money than they need, and even then that person cannot buy happiness because those things cannot be bought with money. You obviously disagree with the saying since you are equating being responsible with money/not broke is what will make a person happy.
I don't disagree I just think it's more complicated than that.
There's a lot of things that money can't buy and you're absolutely correct on that. However, there's a lot that it can assuming you know how to handle it.
My whole point was that it's not going to buy you anything if you can't manage it and you might as well not even have it if that's the case.
One of my bosses made very good money and so did her husband. She was in so much debt that she was flat broke and living paycheck to paycheck. What should not have been a worried to her was a big worry because of poor management. She could have saved herself a whole lot of stress.
We're talking about a woman here that probably had a combined income with her husband of over 200,000 a year. She would buy stuff from amazon, then return it because she couldn't afford to keep it.
I guess we just disagree on what the expression, "money doesn't buy happiness" tries to convey. I understood the expression to simply mean that a person can have all their material needs met and still be unhappy if they are unfulfilled emotionally.
It doesn't buy complete happiness. I definitely agree with that but I do think it's a whole lot better than worrying about paying your bills every month.
im surprised no one has actually gone the extra mile and completed the quote.
"money doesn't buy happiness... but it buys everything else"
either way, what low-landscape is referring to is not at all what the expression intends. budgeting, being frugal, is not having money. the idea is having an excess of money will not make you happy, being able to pay our bills on time, and so on will not make you happy.
the reality is, there is truth to it. in fact, you regularly hear/see about rich people committing suicide. The reality is, money can really accentuate issues like loneliness. When you aren't worried about putting food on the table, or paying rent, or saving, you can lose purpose and meaning in your life, which will inevitability result in unhappiness. Having a purpose and meaning in life, even if it is putting away some money from your paycheck so you and your spouse can have security, you are working towards that. That isn't having money in the sense of this expression. Having money in this expression means having excess, the idea of poor financial management is a personal ism that you may want to preach from the mountain tops, but money not buying happiness doesn't mean if you have a savings you'll be happy. Money not buying happiness means if you have ALL THE MONEY you'll ever need, you STILL won't be happy. Which, is very true, and you take anyone and give them a billion dollars over night your life will change dramatically, it will have to. You'll lose many of your friends, you'll lose your concept of what security is that little 500k in your savings won't seem like security AT ALL. And if you aren't careful you'll lose touch with reality. Happiness is fleeting, and a broke crackhead on the street getting that fix probably experiences more happiness in 5 minutes than Jeff Bezos does in a week. Humans have the ability to normalize ANYTHING and being able to do anything you want anytime you want just becomes normal, not exciting and not fulfilling.
A lot if people (like me) have money, but along the way, we've lost a lot.
We've lost friendships because we wanted to devote time to earning money.
We've lost relationships, because of the pressure we put on ourselves
We've lost quality time with our children.
We've lost our hobbies and interests and become boring people to be around.
It's not simply that "money doesn't buy happiness", it's that the pursuit of money-money-money can actively lead to unhappiness, but now your trapped and you have to keep feeding the green eyed monster
I'm a big proponent for growing your own. If you buy a grow light you'll make your money back after your first grow (maybe 2nd) and then you pretty much just have free weed for a bit of effort
It’d be closer to 200k now adjusted for inflation, which I could see being a good place to chill out and not worry about money so you can focus on being happy.
It buys security and comfort. Which could be considered happiness. But it is not. That's it. It buys hobbies. Which could be considered happiness. But how shallow does that make one?
You can be making enough money to shadow your broke-ass past, and still. Since one feels crippled. When one's job does not allow one to shine. It does not bring happiness.
Money with lack of personal fulfillment does not bring happiness.
I suppose that can be true. Shelter is vital for survival. I guess some that are surviving with money to spare could be happy. And some hobbies are fulfilling. But I'm simply leaving it at a "sometimes".
Literally, id rather cry in my victorian mansion surrounded by all my dream furniture & artwork.Not having to bat an eye paying bills cause you know damn well I'm gonna pay someone to do that for me lol. Pump gas? Clean my house? Arrange my plans/phonecalls? You name it.
Here's the problem with that statement and here's why some of us that have money say that.
Money does one thing and one thing only. You no longer worry about paying bills. If you don't have good financial management in the first place, no amount of money will fix your problems.
During my career, I watched employees making the same amount of money as me absolutely struggle because they couldn't stay out of debt and they made stupid financial decisions.
It never mattered how much of a pay raise we got. If they couldn't manage what they were currently making, they couldn't manage more either.
Better money management always beats more money because better money management means more money. Which can stretch a dollar a lot farther.
If you're walking through the desert thirsty, you feel that all your problems you see from that vantage point would disappear if you only had all the drinking water you ever need.
From the perspective of someone who's got it on tap in your kitchen, you aren't exactly ecstatic about it on a daily basis, are you?
You feel that money would make you happy because related problems have built up, and they've been around for so long that the idea of removing those problems feels really good in your mind. You've been thirsty, and really want a way to solve it.
Once you get money, you'll feel brief relief as you meet your pressing needs one by one (the way you feel relief when you quench your thirst). And then all you feel, is the absence of desire. You're a person with a kitchen tap, and your biggest luxury is that you can drink before you ever get thirsty.
People who give this advice about money not buying happiness are providing it from that vantage point. They are terrified that someone may want to spend the best years of their life laser focused on the pursuit of a kitchen tap, thinking that's the secret to happiness.
Money is awesome. It can buy all kinds of good stuff to enhance your life. Never having to worry about paying bills is amazing. However, it will not fix bad relationships or mental health problems. It will not solve everything. If you are a depressed, unhappy person, money isn’t going to fix that.
money just make some of your parts of life comfortable and better and Easier the happiness don't come from just money , and you shouldn't hate who say money don't make you happy , maybe they got the money and rich but still they faced problems and health issues and many stuff in there life that are beyond money or money can't fix those psychological and spiritual problems and loneliness and emptiness , traumas .. etc ..
what I'm trying to say don't relay on just Money to be happy cuz you will never be always happy cuz just you have bigger number on your bank account , and if you disagree just search and ask why many rich & powerful & famous people in developed countries like japan , south korea , Usa .. have higer rate of Sui_cide and end their life despite having many there life ??? and these are facts you can dig & search internet & history .. of many cases like this ..
i wish you happiness and be rich but that's not everything in life to Chase , balance is the key and knowledge and religion and peace & having realistic & healthy life & body & Good Goals and family and relationships and caring for others and helping and being humble & fighting for right causes .. and remembering money and materialistic stuff don't define who you are and money is just a tool & it changes and it can help you & the world to be better or the opposite
I think people misinterpret this saying. It's not meant for poor people. Obviously money would help the lives of people that don't have it.
What it means is that even if you have money that doesn't mean you'll be happy. Even rich people can hate their lives or have other terrible circumstances not related to money.
Money solves problems. At a certain point they stop doing do and just becomes more of the same. Yeah i wish i had more money, i also know people far poorer then me that had a far more fulfilling life than me. Im not sure what i do wrong
Money doesn’t buy happiness, directly. It does, to a point, buy freedom. Freedom brings happiness.
It does get to the point where having yet more money makes little or no difference. That’s, in my opinion, what’s really meant by “money doesn’t buy happiness”.
I agree. Money lets you buy things that make you happy, which indirectly or directly, makes you happy. Not only that, but having money feels better than not.
But it doesn't. I'm the richest I've ever been, but not the happiest. It does buy some peace of mind knowing I can afford food, shelter, and emergencies. The problem with wealth is that it can disappear at any time. That's why psycho billionaires can never have enough. They are terrified of losing it.
On the one hand, I can see where you’re coming from. On the other hand, I grew up in a well-off family and was often told how “fortunate” I was to be in that position.
I have C-PTSD now (unrelated to the wealth thing) and no amount of money will make me not hate myself.
Trust me it does not, it makes life mildly more comfortable and less stressful. True happiness i believes comes from a sense of purpose and accomplishment that lifts others around you.
It’s better to cry in a Ferrari than a Corolla. Jokes aside, money buys you peace of mind, which in turn can help eliminate stress, depression and misery, so people who say money doesn’t buy happiness have never been poor.
I hate to say it but money does buy happiness. The only problem in my life is that I don't have a lot of it and need to work everyday for it. Other than money my life is where I want it to be.
Money is one of the worlds best inventions it's great, it buys safety, security, good, services, opportunities, it takes care of all ur wants and needs.
I think if we stepped back and looked at the wonders that money actually does for us we'll see how great it actually is.
The only people who have money say that because money wasn't the issue for them ever. Ask a person in poverty or in debt or who's just struggling in life. Even if someone is living life without any struggles, hardships they also want money. But the people who didn't have to worry about rent being piled up , how to buy food or how to fulfill even the basic thing that costs money they know that money does buy happiness. Maybe not peace but it does bring happiness in a lot of way
Here’s my take as someone who’s had major, treatment-resistant depression for most of my life. I inherited some money a few years ago — not enough to buy a mansion or a boat or anything, but enough for a decent apartment and a comfortable, middle-class life.
Money itself cannot actually buy happiness — but it does let you take care of situations that would otherwise make you much more miserable.
Having financial stability thanks to my folks is a life-changing blessing that I’m incredibly conscious of and grateful for. But I got it only after losing them, and I haven’t had a successful relationship since before they died (and no kids, no siblings). So now I’m alone in the world, and money can never get me a new family or a life partner, nor does it add meaning to my mainly empty life. I’ve left financial bequests to my closest friends in my will, but sometimes I wish I could just check out and let them have it sooner rather than later, since they have lives that are actually worth living.
So if you already have happiness and meaning in your life, money will give you a buffer from a hell of a lot of misery — but if you have an unhappy life, while less misery certainly helps…it doesn’t equal more happiness.
Money doesn’t buy happiness it buys freedom and peace of mind which gives the ability to obtain happiness. Most of us can only find moments of happiness bc we’re too busy trying to survive
It buys material freedom. Its cultural.to.think it.buys happiness. Your sense of content is chemical in your brain. If its out of order it will be regardless, whether you have means or not. Similar to addiction, once you have anything you want theres no reward system left. Money does not buy happiness. It buys many temporary dopamine boosts, which just result in converse depression and existential crisis.
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Money can't buy you happiness - but at least you can arrive at your problems in style.
Money can't buy happiness, it buys crazy @ss happiness
-Eminem
Ask people who make 50,000 and they will tell you I just need 75,000 to be happy.
Ask people who make 75,000 and they will tell you I just need 100,000 to be happy.
Ask people who make 100,000 and they will tell you I just need 150,000 to be happy.
Etc.
All these numbers are taken from a true study, by the way.
If people lived below their means instead of having the best that their salary can buy, they wouldn’t need more and more. If someone has a $50,000 a year salary they probably have a $20,000 car. If someone has a $100,000 salary they probably have a $60,000 car. Same with house, phone, whatever other expenses they have. Putting themselves into these situations where they would feel like they need more to pay the bills they’ve put themselves into.
But I get what you’re saying.
This topic has been studied already. Money does relate directly to “happiness” (wellbeing mostly) up to a certain number. Varies from country to country, but when you are below your basic needs plus minor extras, money has a lot of impact.
Once you pass that number, money can’t do much else for your happiness. If you’re unhappy at that point, you will be similarly unhappy if you had more money. After a higher limit, excess money actually starts bringing new problems.
Money is like oxygen. When you don’t have it, it’s all you can think about. When you have enough, you forget about it and makes no difference.
There are different types of resources for different types of needs. People have different dreams that requires different thresholds to meet. Someone self-sabotaging themselves by needing more by living outside their means isn't showcasing that having real needs met doesn't provide happiness, just that they are creating needs they don't need (and problems they don't have to have). I think I read somewhere that 70k a year is where people's needs are typically met and having more doesn't drastically increase their happiness.
Hedonistic treadmill or lifestyle creep.
You are describing hedonic adaptation. However, I disagree that someone who is homeless wouldn't be happier with their necessities met. Of course, there are diminishing returns where having more won't make you substantially happier as you already have all your needs met and don't "need more". However, people will most certainly be happier at lower brackets having more if having more resources opens up more avenues to happiness, like having medical expenses paid, having a house, being able to afford a large family.
A homeless person who has their necessities met is now just another person
Yeah, money and “happiness” relate similarly to a logarithmic curve. It’s very impactful at the lower range, but quickly becomes flat after you cover your basic needs plus minor extras.
Also money alienates people. With larger amounts of money, the anxiety and paranoia becomes more relevant, eventually degrading friendships and family dynamics.
All of a sudden, in your head, everyone is only after your money.
Source?
This is very true. Most people are poor at financial management and no amount of money would be enough for them. They would simply adjust their living for their higher salary.
Me and the wife did the opposite. We lived very frugal. When we got pay raises, that was just extra money to save and invest.
What does this have to do with whether money does or does not buy happiness?
Well, think about it. If you're continuously getting yourself in debt no amount of money will make you any happier because you're still going to end up in the same situations.
That's not really what the saying "money doesn't buy happiness" refers to. It is more the idea that the things make a person truly happy are not things you can buy with money. Love, friendship, etc. Obviously, the typical Redditor disagrees
If there's one thing I've learned on here it's that people don't like when you have money and they don't. Same applies to real life. I think you're getting one over on them.
The one thing I've learned about having money is that more people ask for it and pretend like you owe them something.
The typical redditor also complains that they are broke all the time. So does most of the real world.
It's actually sad because people act like good financial management is bragging but it's not like I had a million dollar salary. I had an average American salary for my line of work I just didn't blow it and put myself in debt.
Right, people stink at saving money. But the saying assumes a person has more money than they need, and even then that person cannot buy happiness because those things cannot be bought with money. You obviously disagree with the saying since you are equating being responsible with money/not broke is what will make a person happy.
I don't disagree I just think it's more complicated than that.
There's a lot of things that money can't buy and you're absolutely correct on that. However, there's a lot that it can assuming you know how to handle it.
My whole point was that it's not going to buy you anything if you can't manage it and you might as well not even have it if that's the case.
One of my bosses made very good money and so did her husband. She was in so much debt that she was flat broke and living paycheck to paycheck. What should not have been a worried to her was a big worry because of poor management. She could have saved herself a whole lot of stress.
We're talking about a woman here that probably had a combined income with her husband of over 200,000 a year. She would buy stuff from amazon, then return it because she couldn't afford to keep it.
I guess we just disagree on what the expression, "money doesn't buy happiness" tries to convey. I understood the expression to simply mean that a person can have all their material needs met and still be unhappy if they are unfulfilled emotionally.
It doesn't buy complete happiness. I definitely agree with that but I do think it's a whole lot better than worrying about paying your bills every month.
im surprised no one has actually gone the extra mile and completed the quote.
"money doesn't buy happiness... but it buys everything else"
either way, what low-landscape is referring to is not at all what the expression intends. budgeting, being frugal, is not having money. the idea is having an excess of money will not make you happy, being able to pay our bills on time, and so on will not make you happy.
the reality is, there is truth to it. in fact, you regularly hear/see about rich people committing suicide. The reality is, money can really accentuate issues like loneliness. When you aren't worried about putting food on the table, or paying rent, or saving, you can lose purpose and meaning in your life, which will inevitability result in unhappiness. Having a purpose and meaning in life, even if it is putting away some money from your paycheck so you and your spouse can have security, you are working towards that. That isn't having money in the sense of this expression. Having money in this expression means having excess, the idea of poor financial management is a personal ism that you may want to preach from the mountain tops, but money not buying happiness doesn't mean if you have a savings you'll be happy. Money not buying happiness means if you have ALL THE MONEY you'll ever need, you STILL won't be happy. Which, is very true, and you take anyone and give them a billion dollars over night your life will change dramatically, it will have to. You'll lose many of your friends, you'll lose your concept of what security is that little 500k in your savings won't seem like security AT ALL. And if you aren't careful you'll lose touch with reality. Happiness is fleeting, and a broke crackhead on the street getting that fix probably experiences more happiness in 5 minutes than Jeff Bezos does in a week. Humans have the ability to normalize ANYTHING and being able to do anything you want anytime you want just becomes normal, not exciting and not fulfilling.
A lot if people (like me) have money, but along the way, we've lost a lot. We've lost friendships because we wanted to devote time to earning money. We've lost relationships, because of the pressure we put on ourselves We've lost quality time with our children. We've lost our hobbies and interests and become boring people to be around.
It's not simply that "money doesn't buy happiness", it's that the pursuit of money-money-money can actively lead to unhappiness, but now your trapped and you have to keep feeding the green eyed monster
chasing money feels like a win at first but ends up costing the stuff that actually makes life feel full and worth it.
Yeah. I’m so poor I’m actually tired of even trying to work shitty jobs anymore. Idk what to do.
smoke weed
You need money for that
Yes, if you buy it.
I'm a big proponent for growing your own. If you buy a grow light you'll make your money back after your first grow (maybe 2nd) and then you pretty much just have free weed for a bit of effort
Same here
Didn't they do a study on this?
I think it said that with 100,000 a year you would be happier, but more than that gives you extra stress?
In reality, it sounds like something a rich person would say.
It’d be closer to 200k now adjusted for inflation, which I could see being a good place to chill out and not worry about money so you can focus on being happy.
It doesnt buy happiness and that is the truth! but it does reduce the suffering a bit...
I don't want happiness, just give me the money already...
It doesn't buy happiness as much as it frees your mind if you're able to pay away your troubles -- and possibly self medicate
It also means you have more time to devote to yourself - do hobbies you love, read, go places, see friends. You know, actually live.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it certainly helps! - My mum.
Money can't buy happiness nor fix stupid. Just look at Donald Chump for instance.
It buys security and comfort. Which could be considered happiness. But it is not. That's it. It buys hobbies. Which could be considered happiness. But how shallow does that make one?
You can be making enough money to shadow your broke-ass past, and still. Since one feels crippled. When one's job does not allow one to shine. It does not bring happiness.
Money with lack of personal fulfillment does not bring happiness.
Security comfort hobbies.. these bring personal fulfillment.
I suppose that can be true. Shelter is vital for survival. I guess some that are surviving with money to spare could be happy. And some hobbies are fulfilling. But I'm simply leaving it at a "sometimes".
Literally, id rather cry in my victorian mansion surrounded by all my dream furniture & artwork.Not having to bat an eye paying bills cause you know damn well I'm gonna pay someone to do that for me lol. Pump gas? Clean my house? Arrange my plans/phonecalls? You name it.
Here's the problem with that statement and here's why some of us that have money say that.
Money does one thing and one thing only. You no longer worry about paying bills. If you don't have good financial management in the first place, no amount of money will fix your problems.
During my career, I watched employees making the same amount of money as me absolutely struggle because they couldn't stay out of debt and they made stupid financial decisions.
It never mattered how much of a pay raise we got. If they couldn't manage what they were currently making, they couldn't manage more either.
Better money management always beats more money because better money management means more money. Which can stretch a dollar a lot farther.
'money doesnt buy happiness' isnt the full thought, kinda like 'the customer is always right'.
its 'money doesnt buy happiness, but it can buy all the shit that makes me happy'. 😂
"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it." - David Lee Roth
Truuuue lol
Jorge Kahwagi was born into wealth, and spent a lifetime chasing happiness, only to be laughed at and mocked by his peers.
Kahwagi pretends to be happy, but his "happiness" is an empty void filled with self doubt
Money can buy happiness to a degree but it tends to have diminishing returns once you have more then enough money to live comfortably
It’s said by happy people without any $$$ or by miserable people with $$$.
If you're walking through the desert thirsty, you feel that all your problems you see from that vantage point would disappear if you only had all the drinking water you ever need.
From the perspective of someone who's got it on tap in your kitchen, you aren't exactly ecstatic about it on a daily basis, are you?
You feel that money would make you happy because related problems have built up, and they've been around for so long that the idea of removing those problems feels really good in your mind. You've been thirsty, and really want a way to solve it.
Once you get money, you'll feel brief relief as you meet your pressing needs one by one (the way you feel relief when you quench your thirst). And then all you feel, is the absence of desire. You're a person with a kitchen tap, and your biggest luxury is that you can drink before you ever get thirsty.
People who give this advice about money not buying happiness are providing it from that vantage point. They are terrified that someone may want to spend the best years of their life laser focused on the pursuit of a kitchen tap, thinking that's the secret to happiness.
In this day and age, it kinda does in a way
Money is awesome. It can buy all kinds of good stuff to enhance your life. Never having to worry about paying bills is amazing. However, it will not fix bad relationships or mental health problems. It will not solve everything. If you are a depressed, unhappy person, money isn’t going to fix that.
The phrase was meant for excessive wealth but it's primarily used to diminish real problems that are caused by generational poverty.
It relieves stress and increases comfort so…..yah
The solution is to be happy with little. When money comes along, and you don't give into greed, it enhances it.
money just make some of your parts of life comfortable and better and Easier the happiness don't come from just money , and you shouldn't hate who say money don't make you happy , maybe they got the money and rich but still they faced problems and health issues and many stuff in there life that are beyond money or money can't fix those psychological and spiritual problems and loneliness and emptiness , traumas .. etc ..
what I'm trying to say don't relay on just Money to be happy cuz you will never be always happy cuz just you have bigger number on your bank account , and if you disagree just search and ask why many rich & powerful & famous people in developed countries like japan , south korea , Usa .. have higer rate of Sui_cide and end their life despite having many there life ??? and these are facts you can dig & search internet & history .. of many cases like this .. i wish you happiness and be rich but that's not everything in life to Chase , balance is the key and knowledge and religion and peace & having realistic & healthy life & body & Good Goals and family and relationships and caring for others and helping and being humble & fighting for right causes .. and remembering money and materialistic stuff don't define who you are and money is just a tool & it changes and it can help you & the world to be better or the opposite
Question is, would the money make you really happier or the things you buy?
Capitalism is one hell of a drug
I think people misinterpret this saying. It's not meant for poor people. Obviously money would help the lives of people that don't have it.
What it means is that even if you have money that doesn't mean you'll be happy. Even rich people can hate their lives or have other terrible circumstances not related to money.
“They say money can’t buy happiness? Give me fifty bucks and watch me smile.” -
Bobby “The Brain” Heenan
I'd like to use that phrase with another part since I heard it somewhere long time ago; Money doesn't buy happiness. But Poverty buys misery.
Money solves problems. At a certain point they stop doing do and just becomes more of the same. Yeah i wish i had more money, i also know people far poorer then me that had a far more fulfilling life than me. Im not sure what i do wrong
Me too! Lots of money affords you freedom. Freedom eliminates stress. Stress free freedom gives you happiness.
Money doesn't buy happiness but it staves off misery
Money doesn’t buy happiness, directly. It does, to a point, buy freedom. Freedom brings happiness.
It does get to the point where having yet more money makes little or no difference. That’s, in my opinion, what’s really meant by “money doesn’t buy happiness”.
Does food bring you happiness? I bet a starving guy would say "it would fix everything in my life".
Money does not necessarily guarantee happiness but the lack of it certainly guarantees misery.
Money helps you to buy happiness.
Doesn't necessarily buy you happiness but gives you freedom to do whatever the fck you want, whenever the fck you want. To me that's happiness.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure as heck enables it
It does. I bought a Porsche years ago. Nothing beats that, not a sunset, or a good grade at university. Nothing beats that.
Iv never seen a sad person on a jetski before
Even if money doesn't buy you happiness, at least it can buy you comfort, which is an important spot to be at.
I agree. Money lets you buy things that make you happy, which indirectly or directly, makes you happy. Not only that, but having money feels better than not.
Well, im unhappy broke so im willing to give being unhappy and rich a try!
But it doesn't. I'm the richest I've ever been, but not the happiest. It does buy some peace of mind knowing I can afford food, shelter, and emergencies. The problem with wealth is that it can disappear at any time. That's why psycho billionaires can never have enough. They are terrified of losing it.
If you had that much money you would acquire 12 new problems.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can remove impediments to happiness. It's up to you whether you wish to obtain happiness afterwards.
OTOH poor people who are happy exist.
On the one hand, I can see where you’re coming from. On the other hand, I grew up in a well-off family and was often told how “fortunate” I was to be in that position.
I have C-PTSD now (unrelated to the wealth thing) and no amount of money will make me not hate myself.
Gimmie a bazillion dollars and I'll play sad clown for ya.
Trust me it does not, it makes life mildly more comfortable and less stressful. True happiness i believes comes from a sense of purpose and accomplishment that lifts others around you.
It’s better to cry in a Ferrari than a Corolla. Jokes aside, money buys you peace of mind, which in turn can help eliminate stress, depression and misery, so people who say money doesn’t buy happiness have never been poor.
The problem at times is how much money is enough.
So if you are dirt poor you have true friends? True love? Ok then , I wish everyone to be poor for life. Let others enjoy money. 🤭
Especially when I'm fully aware that money would let me and my dad retire and sleep in every day
I hate to say it but money does buy happiness. The only problem in my life is that I don't have a lot of it and need to work everyday for it. Other than money my life is where I want it to be.
Money is one of the worlds best inventions it's great, it buys safety, security, good, services, opportunities, it takes care of all ur wants and needs.
I think if we stepped back and looked at the wonders that money actually does for us we'll see how great it actually is.
For real! It's easy to move when you have money.
The only people who have money say that because money wasn't the issue for them ever. Ask a person in poverty or in debt or who's just struggling in life. Even if someone is living life without any struggles, hardships they also want money. But the people who didn't have to worry about rent being piled up , how to buy food or how to fulfill even the basic thing that costs money they know that money does buy happiness. Maybe not peace but it does bring happiness in a lot of way
Me too
I got 100 problems and money would solve 99 of them, sure would make me happy as heck
Here’s my take as someone who’s had major, treatment-resistant depression for most of my life. I inherited some money a few years ago — not enough to buy a mansion or a boat or anything, but enough for a decent apartment and a comfortable, middle-class life.
Money itself cannot actually buy happiness — but it does let you take care of situations that would otherwise make you much more miserable.
Having financial stability thanks to my folks is a life-changing blessing that I’m incredibly conscious of and grateful for. But I got it only after losing them, and I haven’t had a successful relationship since before they died (and no kids, no siblings). So now I’m alone in the world, and money can never get me a new family or a life partner, nor does it add meaning to my mainly empty life. I’ve left financial bequests to my closest friends in my will, but sometimes I wish I could just check out and let them have it sooner rather than later, since they have lives that are actually worth living.
So if you already have happiness and meaning in your life, money will give you a buffer from a hell of a lot of misery — but if you have an unhappy life, while less misery certainly helps…it doesn’t equal more happiness.
"Dont tell me money don't buy happiness when it so happen that money buy drugs"
It sures enables me to be happy
It does lower your cortisol and stress levels for sure.
Sad news, I speak from experience. You will gain 198 problems that are much harder to solve in return.
Money doesn’t buy happiness it buys freedom and peace of mind which gives the ability to obtain happiness. Most of us can only find moments of happiness bc we’re too busy trying to survive
It buys champagne and that is pretty much the same thing…
Money...
It buys material freedom. Its cultural.to.think it.buys happiness. Your sense of content is chemical in your brain. If its out of order it will be regardless, whether you have means or not. Similar to addiction, once you have anything you want theres no reward system left. Money does not buy happiness. It buys many temporary dopamine boosts, which just result in converse depression and existential crisis.
lol you might be happy for a bit then you see how fake people are look at all the rich people the act like they are happy
I don’t wanna be rich. I just want to be able to afford food. 😂