anonymouse@lemmings.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoMoney doesn't make people crazy. Money lets people stop having to act sane.message-squaremessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1271arrow-down19
arrow-up1262arrow-down1message-squareMoney doesn't make people crazy. Money lets people stop having to act sane.anonymouse@lemmings.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up77arrow-down1·9 months agoWhen people tell me ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’, I tell them ‘it removes a lot of anxiety’. These people don’t have any anxiety anymore, and believe they can do anything. Most of the time they’re right.
minus-squarealcoholicornlinkfedilinkarrow-up42·9 months agoMoney doesn’t buy happiness, it’s merely a pre-requisite for health, safety, freedom of movement, education, and social standing.
minus-squareTakios@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·9 months ago health, safety, freedom of movement, education, and social standing Which all contribute severely to your happiness.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up24·9 months agoMoney can’t buy happiness, this is true, but it sure buys a shitton of opportunities to feel happy…
minus-squareDillyDaily@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·9 months agoPlus a bunch of stuff that was illegal when you were poor suddenly becomes perfectly legal if you’re rich enough to pay the associated fees. I mean, sure the police call them “fines”…but still.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·9 months agoOnce your basic needs are met money can’t really make you that much happier. They did a study on a bunch of people and they found that once you have all the needs met you can’t buy happiness
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22·9 months agoWhich means that until all your needs are met money actually does buy happiness.
minus-squareanonymouse@lemmings.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·9 months ago“Having money’s not everything. Not having it is.” -K. West
minus-squareGladiusB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months agoMoney doesn’t buy happiness, but it does make it a helluva lot easier
minus-squaremoistclump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoIf money doesn’t buy happiness all I ask for is to have to learn this hard lesson for myself.
When people tell me ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’, I tell them ‘it removes a lot of anxiety’.
These people don’t have any anxiety anymore, and believe they can do anything. Most of the time they’re right.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, it’s merely a pre-requisite for health, safety, freedom of movement, education, and social standing.
Which all contribute severely to your happiness.
Money can’t buy happiness, this is true, but it sure buys a shitton of opportunities to feel happy…
Plus a bunch of stuff that was illegal when you were poor suddenly becomes perfectly legal if you’re rich enough to pay the associated fees.
I mean, sure the police call them “fines”…but still.
Once your basic needs are met money can’t really make you that much happier. They did a study on a bunch of people and they found that once you have all the needs met you can’t buy happiness
Which means that until all your needs are met money actually does buy happiness.
“Having money’s not everything. Not having it is.” -K. West
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does make it a helluva lot easier
If money doesn’t buy happiness all I ask for is to have to learn this hard lesson for myself.