Money does indeed buy happiness, and it increases with a bigger paycheque more than economists previously believed, a recent analysis has found.
Money doesnt buy happiness.
Money buys medical care, that leads to happiness.
It buys good food, which leads to happiness.
it buys shelter and transportation, that leads to happiness.
Having money removes one of the biggest, most miserable stressors in the vast majority of peoples lives… Which leads to more happiness.
It offers freedom to splurge and do something for yourself, which improves your happiness.
Money cant buy happiness, but money can buy a fuckload of the things you need to give you happiness.
Money cant buy happiness, but money can buy a fuckload of the things you need to give you happiness.
There’s a small bit of truth in that saying so it makes more sense to phrase it from the opposite perspective: “Money cant buy happiness, but money can fix a fuckload of the things that cause unhappiness.”
Medical care doesn’t lead to happiness, but lack of medical care surely causes unhappiness
Exactly.
I’m well off enough that I don’t have to worry about anything breaking. A new bike, washing machine, even entire kitchen would of course be a nuisance, but not bother me financially.
I also saved enough and live frugal enough that I could easily live years without any income.
That gives me so much more peace of mind. I don’t have to worry about getting fired, I don’t have to worry about a stolen bike, etc.
A good friend of mine has a good degree, but in a much less comfortable field. She’s constantly worried that she might be let go, since she’s not earning that much, has to pay back loans and lives in an expensive city. And even she is still privileged, because at least she’s not a single mom without formal qualifications.
Having money means you don’t have to be a complete wage slave. When you’re not afraid of getting fired, when you have means to get by if you’re out of a job, etc. you don’t have to submit to abusive bosses, and you never feel like you’re helpless and can’t leave the place you work.
With enough money, you may not need to work at all.
In a capitalist society, money buys a way out of the always looming menace of the reserve army of labour. Maybe not completely, unless you’re dirty rich, but enough to remove helpless serfdom and slave-like conditions from one’s life.
Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy your preferred form of misery.
I guess that sense of agency over our suffering is a kind of happiness.
who’s “we,” bub
The people responsible for saying the age old idiom: money doesn’t buy happiness??? Feel like that was too easy to answer and I’m missing the real question.
Money buys security and stability. The whole “money doesn’t buy happiness” schtick is just something rich people tell poor people to keep them in line. Or so they think
In my experience it’s something poor people tell themselves and each other, to the same end.
Money itself doesn’t bring happiness, though, it’s just one way of removing roadblocks to happiness.
A person suffering emotional distress and depression won’t suddenly be cured when handed a sack of money. Especially if the distress and depression isn’t financially motivated.
Our society is particularly monetarily motivated, so a lot of barriers in life are financial. But they are not all the barriers to happiness that exist.
The whole premise that ‘money can’t buy happiness’ is a tool for the ruling class to try and make the poors become content with their poverty and not try to do anything about the inequality.
It’s somewhat realistic. Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain come to mind. It’s also kinda shown with the number of people that come into money then fall out of it.
Kinda inverse to me. I think there’s a level of financial comfortability that reduces stress and anxiety. Money doesn’t buy happiness, but poor buys some very negative emotional responses.
It’s not realistic. The realistic phrase would be ‘excess does not buy happiness’.
Yes we have Anthony Bourdain and Robin Williams as counter examples, but it’s pretty shitty to use their mental health to support a classist tool designed to keep the lower classes quiet. Money doesn’t fix everything because not everything can be fixed, but it definitely does buy a lot of joy and opportunity to live and enjoy living.
