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Can Money Buy Happiness?
Maybe more cash does make people happier. Especially salient are analyses done by University of Pennsylvania economists Daniel Sacks, Betsey Stevenson, and Justin Wolfers. In their updated 2010 study, “Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth,” the three compare subjective well-being survey data from 140 countries with those countries' income and economic growth rates. The researchers find that within individual countries richer people are happier than poorer; people in richer countries are happier than people in poorer countries; and over time increased economic growth leads to increased happiness. “These results together suggest that measured subjective well-being grows hand in hand with material living standards,” they conclude..
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Krisztián Pintér 200+
for all those that believe money does not buy happiness, this is my message: if you are not a monk, you are a hypocrite.
Mohammad Mohammadipour
Q2. Do you think that happiness is more under the influence of external variables, and, more stuffs will lead to a happier life?
Q3. What are the main characteristics of your ideal life?
Regards.
Krisztián Pintér 200+
again, i understand the opposing side. if the dalai lama tells me that this is not the real happiness, i tend to agree that. but let us forgive ourselves for not being a buddhist monk in this life, and get that damn vaccination without shame.
Colleen Steen 500+
I do not believe that money buys happiness, I am neither a monk or a hypocrite. That is a bit of a stretch for a general statement.....don't you think?
I agree with you that medications, leaving famines behind, heating our home in the winter are factors that may make us more comfortable, and no doubt can contribute to our happiness/contentment. Do you think/feel that there may be different levels of happiness? Contentment? How we perceive these comforts?
To use one of your examples of comfort...
I am content and comfortable because I have a home, which is an insulated, wooden structure with wood stoves. I have interacted with people in remote areas of our world who have tiny mud huts, with a little fire in the middle, and they have seemed to be equally as content, and appreciate their "comfort" as I am with my comfort.
Some people think I am nuts for wanting to heat with wood....have to cut it, haul it, stoke the fires constantly if I want to be warm. Some folks think that my choice of "comfort", is WAY too much work, and prefer to simply hit the thermostat, and turn on the oil, gas or electric heat. Then, of course, many people in our world do not even have a home.
Do you think/feel that what we may experience as happiness/contentment is sometimes based on our individual perceptions, life experiences and/or our choices?
Krisztián Pintér 200+
these can be bought with money. hence, money can buy happiness. unless you use doublethink of course.
Colleen Steen 500+
Krisztián Pintér 200+
you yourself agreed that money can buy drugs that heal. a drug that heals can cause happiness. as a consequence: money can buy happiness. topic closed.
Colleen Steen 500+
My perception, is that money can indeed buy "things" that may contribute to a person's happiness. Money can also buy the same "things" for different people, who do not choose to be happy.
So, my conclusion, is that money DOES NOT buy happiness, because happiness/contentment is a CHOICE regardless of how much money we have, or how many "things" the money we have allows us to buy:>)
I realize this may not be of interest to you, and it might be to someone else.....that also is a choice.....in my humble perception:>)
The only reason I entered in conversation with you Krisztián, is because of your statement...
"for all those that believe money does not buy happiness, this is my message: if you are not a monk, you are a hypocrite."
It seems clear that you do not understand, nor do you want to understand my perception, and that is ok:>)
Krisztián Pintér 200+
1. money can buy stuff
2. stuff can make people happy
3. money can not buy happiness
do you maintain these statements? time for me to leave then
Colleen Steen 500+
1. Money can buy stuff.
2. I do not believe that stuff can make people happy.
I believe that happiness/contentment is a choice that is not dependant on how much stuff a person has.
3. Money cannot buy happiness because happiness is a choice regardless of how much money or stuff a person has.
Krisztián Pintér 200+
"I agree with you that medications, leaving famines behind, heating our home in the winter are factors that may make us more comfortable, and no doubt can contribute to our happiness"
it is false
Colleen Steen 500+
My comments are pretty clear. I did not "revoke" anything and I think you know that.
It serves no useful purpose to try to confuse the issue, or label people "hypocrite" when you disagree or do not understand a perspective other than your own. This behavior only demonstrates a very narrow view on your part.
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Colleen Steen 500+