• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Money might not buy happiness, but it sure as hell solves a lot of problems that make people unhappy.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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.

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          1 year ago

          No i have money. Having no monetary problems and the resulting bliss is happiness

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            1 year ago

            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.

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              1 year ago

              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