CountryGirl 35 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 The title says it all, can money truly buy happiness? Link to comment
DerivativeWings 1,648 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 It depends. Money can be used to remove stressful elements of your life to a point. For example, it's easier to be happy if you don't have to worry about food or having somewhere to sleep. I think money correlates to happiness, but you start getting heavy diminishing returns after you have a certain amount. Ultimately, we each have to find what makes us happy, and a giant pile of money ain't going to do squat to help with that. Lemon56 and TVGuy 2 Link to comment
MasterXploder 749 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 2 hours ago, DerivativeWings said: It depends. Money can be used to remove stressful elements of your life to a point. For example, it's easier to be happy if you don't have to worry about food or having somewhere to sleep. I think money correlates to happiness, but you start getting heavy diminishing returns after you have a certain amount. Ultimately, we each have to find what makes us happy, and a giant pile of money ain't going to do squat to help with that. This correlates with most research on the subject. Once you have enough money that the basic essentials are no longer an issue, the amount of happiness you get drops off significantly from there. At that point, you'll need to venture out and find the stuff that fulfills you to make you happy. Link to comment
Brittanybunny 1,494 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 In my opinion no, and here is why, growing up for me, i always worked for what i earned and got spoiled with plushies and art stuff, thankfully was never a brat, but as time went on and i got older, my parents spent more money on me than they did spend time with me, by that time i pushed them away. Also you see women who are gold diggers and want a guy for money so they can go shopping and never have to work, which to me isnt happiness, its greed im also cheap and dont want people spending a crap ton on me to make me happy, even my lover, i will never ask him to spoil me constantly with gifts or spend money on me to make me happy, i just want him Money is a necessity, we need it to pay bills, get food, live in a house, and pay for everyday things we need. Yea having money to get everyday things and pay to get you a place you wanna be will make you happy, but it should not be the thing that makes you happy forever. Solely relying on money to make you happy in life just seems like greed to me. You need to feel happy, live life to the fullest and have people around you, that is lifes true happiness FromIncognitoMode and slovenc79 2 Link to comment
BENAir01 601 Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I dont think money buys happiness, and I dont think you can't be happy without money. However, many can be used to help you find happiness to a point. Link to comment
Omorashi.toxic 11 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) I mean would anybody be happy if they were living on the streets homeless? Without money, you’d have to depend on other people and me personally that would make me quite sad. Edited February 27, 2018 by PrettyNice (see edit history) Link to comment
slovenc79 158 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Money is a currency. It depends what makes you happy - if it's something you can buy, sure. But what is happiness? What do you value the most in life? That's for every individual to find out for themselves. For me personally, relationships with people are the most important, so I focus on that. Buying something i like also makes me happy, but not in that scale. Link to comment
Sake 340 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 To some extent, maybe, but only insofar as you might actually need money to be able to do the things you actually want to do and would be happy doing. But then it's entirely subjective - it's totally possible to be absolutely satisfied with life in a cardboard box and no money to your name if that's really what you want out of life because you're secretly Diogenes. If the life you want needs you to have money, then yeah, that amount of money would buy you happiness, but beyond that you wouldn't really be any happier to have any more money. Link to comment
homeanddry 307 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Also, generally, no. Money might buy you stuff that makes you happy, but it's no use if you have to work ridiculous hours or a really stressful job to get it. Relative happiness at work and quality time away from it is the way forward, as long as you've got enough money to live comfortably! Link to comment
Lilypad 29 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Money can not buy happiness. Various studies have shown that money doesn't equal happiness. At the same time having no money doesn't give you happiness either. And everyone's definition of happiness is different. What would make Person A happy doesn't necessarily make Person B happy. For example, Person A pursues a soccer career and is deeply passionate about soccer and loves playing. Person A also hates anything related to business, couldn't ever think of owning a company or anything of the sorts Person B hates sports, so soccer would never make them happy. On the other hand, Person B is running a small company that produces soccer products. The success of said company makes him happy and he tries his best to keep it going. Both Person A and Person B are happily pursuing their goals and both are happy doing so. Both goals give them money, but the money isn't what makes them happy per se, it's the work that's put into it. Of course we could make more examples of people who just work a boring job they hate but have a loving and caring family of 5 and are happy just to be around them at the end of a boring work day. That's also a form of happiness. Idk what else to say, I believe I got my point across :P Link to comment
PPP 1,307 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 No, but it can rent an impersonation of it. Link to comment
Kez 374 Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Maybe, maybe not. But I'd rather cry in a Mercedes-Benz than on a bus. Link to comment
Sammy 119 Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 I bought a SNES Classic and it made me happy. Money bought me happiness, you cannot argue with this. Link to comment
Lovak 8 Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Well, I think money can bring short-term happiness is small spurts. You can buy a puppy with money and puppies are happiness, but dogs eventually (and sadly) grow up, grow old, and die. ? In my opinion, true and lasting happiness comes from helping others and serving God. I've used money to buy short spurts of happiness, as I've mentioned, but it's more like a short-lived explosion as compared to a nice, long-lasting camp fire that gets fed from giving and helping. desperatewet 1 Link to comment
desperatewet 152 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 On 3/15/2018 at 10:26 PM, PPP said: No, but it can rent an impersonation of it. I like this answer. Link to comment
facade 1,947 Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I believe it can make it easier to obtain with the right circumstances. Shoes aren't required for walking, but it makes it a much more pleasant experience. Link to comment
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