Money cannot buy happiness. But money certainly helps avoid unhappiness. Assuming there is a spectrum of happiness in life, not just two polar ends.
Money cannot buy happiness. But money certainly helps avoid unhappiness. Assuming there is a spectrum of happiness in life, not just two polar ends.
Wealth only brings you happiness if it's the difference between being in the lower class and being in the middle class. The difference in happiness between the middle and upper classes is non-existent. I'm writing a paper about this write now. A study by University of Chicago points out that even though the median American income has doubled since 1950, happiness in America has not changed a bit.
I have even more evidence if you want it.
It can buy a rub and tug.
Of course it does. Anyone who says otherwise is probably a three tooth redneck living in a broken down school bus in the woods.
Lauren Bacall was asked this question.
Well it doesn't make me unhappy
I would venture for most people it would make them happier. There should be a clause in the lottery that any moaners should be made to give the money back.
money is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for happiness.
you can have money and be he unhappy, but you will never be happy being broke*
*in America
Wealth (as opposed to money or income or affluence) can buy peace of mind.
Wouldn't it be great to finish college and have no debt or housing expense (e.g., say, your parents *gave* you a house/condo)?
Can it buy you happiness? Probably not. But it can minimize a lot of couteractive stresses. With baseline food, housing, clothing, shelter taken care of, some subset can forge ahead to "follow their dreams" without worry. And NO, I am *not* advocating for universal income, i.e., stealing from the productive to support the surfers...
asians are awesome wrote:
money is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for happiness.
A better version of what I just posted.
Ever seen somebody frowning on a sea-doo
Short answer.
Absolutely.
Yes, up to a certain $ level. This varies hugely per person, but happiness increases with wealth until you reach a certain comfort/reduced worry point. Above that level, more money gives diminishing happiness returns until pretty soon the hassle /burden effect cause happiness to fall.
People who seem happy with vast wealth in fact are either lying or, more commonly, are happy doing the things that made them rich, not with the actual wealth itself.
Ask the Brojos. Looking at it, it seems to make them a pair of incestious slack hole licking fags.
It seems to me like everyone I know including myself always thinks they need a 20% raise at all times and they’d be happy. Starting from when they’re working for next to nothing as a teenager.
As others have said, you quickly get used to your new salary and lifestyle.
It’s so hard to appreciate what you have. Pathetic but true. I’m better now that I’m in my 40’s but it’s still tough to not always want more.
Money is happiness. Just watching it pile up makes me happy. Don't need to buy anything!
MoneyIsHappiness wrote:
I am a firm believer that money can 100% buy happiness. From the words of the famous Daniel Tosh “Have you ever seen a sad person on a jet ski?” The answer is no. Hypothetically speaking let’s say you win the lottery and take home a lump sum of $200 Million Dollars after taxes and you also had the option of being anonymous which means no long lost cousins and relatives knocking on your door expecting there hand out your life would change forever for the better.
Your daily schedule would be stress free and enjoyable. You want to take a vacation you can, you want a big fully loaded luxurious mansion its yours, you want to go to Las Vegas and act like a high roller you can, the Rolls Royce, Lamborghini, Bentley all realistic and affordable options for you. Longevity good health is yours. The word stress won’t exist much to you especially the financial kind because like I said above nobody really knows you have this money. So to tell me that money can’t buy happiness is a BS lie that those that are wealthy want all of us to think so they don’t have any competition up at the top.
The truth is the word “HAPPINESS” really means “WEALTH” and this is a fact.
You didn't include the part where you feel fulfilled as a person
Hardloper wrote:
Money is happiness. Just watching it pile up makes me happy. Don't need to buy anything!
totally agree. i love to see it grow. and boy has it been growing recently.
“Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards says nearly a third of lottery winners declare bankruptcy—meaning they were worse off than before they became rich. Other studies show that lottery winners frequently become estranged from family and friends, and incur a greater incidence of depression, drug and alcohol abuse, divorce, and ...”
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Hardloper wrote:
Money is happiness. Just watching it pile up makes me happy. Don't need to buy anything!
totally agree. i love to see it grow. and boy has it been growing recently.
This was the original question it seemed to me. Is watching wealth grow the fun part, or enjoying the fruits of the labor. I’m inclined to say the growing. Once you have enough, eh so what. Then it’s onto something else. See the movie: all the money in the world
I've made ~$20mil in the last 3 yrs. I am probably less happy than before, with work being the primary source of my unhappiness.
One of my favorite quotes.
Dalai Lama -
When asked what surprised him about humanity the most, the Dalai Lama replied:
“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Red Bull (who sponsors Mondo) calls Mondo the pole vaulting Usain Bolt. Is that a fair comparison?