Does money buy happiness?

[Batjester]

If you find the right hookers money can buy happiness.

Money can't buy happiness, but you can rent it for a while.

 

[StonedLemur]

And yes, money DOES buy happiness. Anyone who says it doesn't is probably poor.

Ask the minimum wage wage worker who can barely pay their rent much less take a holiday or the guy spending a month or more every year travelling around Europe and staying in luxury hotels etc about relative happiness levels.

Anyone that thinks it doesn't are just deluding themselves into thinking that as a coping mechanism.

I know people with shit loads of cash, and they are not all happy sir.

 

[koquerelle]

It solves many problems and takes away a lot of pressure. Less pressure, less stress = better lives for you and the people around you.

 

[koquerelle]

My stance on this has always been the Citizen Kane line "money is...to buy things". Money is a social construct people use to acquire things once it ceases to do this it ceases to give you anything but status.

Once people reach a certain amount of wealth it takes more and more money to result in tangible lifestyle changes because there is a finite amount of things people can buy and/or want to buy. Hence this is why rich people spend such a small percentage of their income.

Tell that to the absurd amount of pro athletes who go from rich to poor in a matter of a few years.

 

[Contempt]

I know people with shit loads of cash, and they are not all happy sir.

Anecdotes do not disprove data.

Look at any study that has ever been done on the subject, they all show that it does.

 

[Mark McMichael]

If you give money to a miserable angry person it won't make them a happy person.

That said for most normal people money can indeed buy the things that would make them happy. Being debt free, ability and flexibility to not work if they don't have and to travel or do whatever without worrying about cost are all things that can greatly increase happiness.

 

[StonedLemur]

Anecdotes do not disprove data.

Look at any study that has ever been done on the subject, they all show that it does.

Yeah well if that was the case no rich people would ever commit suicide...yet it happens.
Can't tell me those people were happy before they turned out their own lights sir.

 

[Contempt]

Yeah well if that was the case no rich people would ever commit suicide...yet it happens.
Can't tell me those people were happy before they turned out their own lights sir.

To re-iterate, anecdotes do not disprove data. Just because exceptions exist, it does not disprove the rule.

Money does not make you immune from mental health, divorce or substance abuse issues etc.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

 

[Contempt]

If you give money to a miserable angry person it won't make them a happy person.

That said for most normal people money can indeed buy the things that would make them happy. Being debt free, ability and flexibility to not work if they don't have and to travel or do whatever without worrying about cost are all things that can greatly increase happiness.

What if the person was miserable or angry because of things like stress caused by lack of money? Feeling like you have a wasted life and being bitter that you don't have the same opportunities as others. I would think that in the current age of social media, this would seem fairly common.

I wonder how many of those people would suddenly stop being miserable and angry if they had money? Certainly not all but probably more than you think.

 

[ssBaldy]

Money don't buy happiness directly, they buy you various opportunities to be happy. Hobbies, traveling, helping your loved ones, hookers, blow, all that.

 

[GSP_37]

One less thing to stress about.

 

[Oliver Clothesoff]

The money has allowed me to give my kids a much better life than I had and that makes me happy.

 

[Dropbox4life]

Just takes away worry

 

[Texan6533]

Diminishing returns in my opinion. But I’m sure it’s harder to be happy living in a cardboard box than a 10,000sf mansion….

 

[Mike]

And yes, money DOES buy happiness. Anyone who says it doesn't is probably poor.

Ask the minimum wage wage worker who can barely pay their rent much less take a holiday or the guy spending a month or more every year travelling around Europe and staying in luxury hotels etc about relative happiness levels.

Anyone that thinks it doesn't are just deluding themselves into thinking that as a coping mechanism.

Every time ANYTHING happened when I was younger there were tough decisions to be made. I remember being sick and not having money for medicine, so I just had to tough it out for a couple months till I recovered. My girlfriend needed her wisdom teeth removed, we got it done but were broke for the rest of that year. My pa2 broke and I couldn't get a new one until the following year. Keeping a car up and running for long was usually impossible

Anything more than $100 was a Serious Purchase that had to be preplanned. Nowadays if I need something, I just buy it. When I go to the grocery store I don't have to keep an itemized list so I don't go over my limit. Something I grew up doing. And a major purchase is something like a car. Not a tv or a game console.

 

[Contempt]

Every time ANYTHING happened when I was younger there were tough decisions to be made. I remember being sick and not having money for medicine, so I just had to tough it out for a couple months till I recovered. My girlfriend needed her wisdom teeth removed, we got it done but were broke for the rest of that year. My pa2 broke and I couldn't get a new one until the following year. Keeping a car up and running for long was usually impossible

Anything more than $100 was a Serious Purchase that had to be preplanned. Nowadays if I need something, I just buy it. When I go to the grocery store I don't have to keep an itemized list so I don't go over my limit. Something I grew up doing. And a major purchase is something like a car. Not a tv or a game console.

Yep, being poor frankly sucks ass... I grew up that way and I am sure as hell going to make sure I never go back.

 

[Big Dawg]

It always makes me happy to know I am financially stable so to a degree, yes.

 

[Adamant]

Yes. It takes away stress and gets you pretty much everything you want. Material items. Vacations. Expensive cuisine. Houses. Gold digging whores. The whole nine yards.

 

[StonedLemur]

To re-iterate, anecdotes do not disprove data. Just because exceptions exist, it does not disprove the rule.

Money does not make you immune from mental health, divorce or substance abuse issues etc.

Data also doesn't account for everyone, so therefore we'll never know the true numbers sir.