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Can money buy happiness?
I would like to know what most people think about this: Does money create real happiness?
Closing Statement from Carles Brito Duran
This is what I think about it:
If you are a poor man, you're hungry but you don't have any money food, you sleep on the streets but you don't have any money for pay an hotel's room, plus you're sick and you don't have money for pay the medicaments... Are you a happy man?
Thanks all you for comment!
Robert Winner 50+
I do not think that money can "buy" happiness .... I think it is how we manage our time and the assets that we have will determine the levels of satisfaction and "happiness" that we will enjoy.
Notice that I did not imply that there must be a lot of money ... and there does not have to be. If you can provide the essentials, share your time with loved ones, and "get away" to swim, ski, tour, etc .., and share memories once or twice a year then you have a rich and fulfilling life.
What would happiness be to you? With or without money.
All the best. Bob.
David Hamilton 50+
Unfortunately this system has been very warped by short term happiness, being chosen over long term happiness. Junk food over exercise. Drugs over meaningful interactions, and healthy relationships, etc. Earning money, in the purest sense. Doing work, that helps people solve their problems... Is happiness in my opinion. When you have earned your money, in that manner, there are, and should be cool perks, like jet ski's, travel, and maybe rocket packs one day. The happiness comes from earning those perks however, not just having them.
Sharon McCann 10+
The reality: Money buys you options.
Once you have that which is necessary to survive you can focus on your higher needs. Money gives you options for achieving those that those without money do not have. But, the pursuit of happiness is entirely up to you. Pursuing money will not bring you happiness.
Linda Taylor 50+
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
There are rich and happy people, there are poor and happy people; there are rich and miserable people, there are poor and miserable people.
There is hardly anyone who loves poverty; but there are too many pointers around us to the fact that money does not solve all problems.
Salim Solaiman 50+
However, a person who is hungry because s/he doesn't have money to buy food , which might make her/him unhappy, some money with which s/he can buy food will make her/him happy that moment.
W. Ying 10+
I agree.
(See also: my reply to Krisztián Pintér, at the 2nd earliest comment herein)
gale kooser 20+
Having enough money to pay bills etc. gives a person a sense of being stable.
Money does not create happiness, nor does the lack of it. Happiness comes from within a person.
Jedrek Stepien 10+
Moreover, people who concentrate on the above are satisfied the less, the longer they live.
Everybody, whether or not they confess it to themselves, really knows that their life, apart from the meaning it has as such, has a yet deeper one, and they feel truly happy only in proportion to the degree to which they give expression to the latter.
Everybody is inwardly driven by a feeling of "should", no matter whether they opon their ear to it or not.
John Frum 30+
Money has its place.
Lejan . 30+
Gail . 50+
Krisztián Pintér 200+
W. Ying 10+
(1) Valid happiness: --- the short-time feeling of things being a-step-better for keeping one’s DNA alive.
(2) Invalid happiness: --- the short-time feeling of things being a-step-better for keeping one’s DNA alive, but long-time feeling of things being a-step-worse for keeping one’s DNA alive.
Such as eating junk food, smoking tobacco, abusing drug, .... making too much money.
It is invalid because it is out of the validity scope of our instincts formed 10,000 years ago.
Wrong?
W. Ying 10+
(1) Money can buy happiness at/below its optimal point of quantity.
(2) Money can buy INVALID happiness above its optimal point in quantity. The further above the point is the more invalid content it contains.
Wrong?