Does money bring your happiness?

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After I started taking medicine, some days are more bearable than others, but the longer I live, the clearer it becomes for me that nothing and no one will make me want to stay alive, other than money, I've always had a life of poverty and misery, I think if one day I'm successful maybe I can't enjoy the finer things in life

 

[Verodv]

I have a nice job, well paid.
I don't know what do you mean with "success" - maybe a yacht, maybe don't owe anyone. My kind is more the second type since I started from zero and I earn only from my work.

Have enaugh money, know you can afford most of unpredictable problems, is the base of a healty life. Then you can buy what makes you happy, if such thing exixts.

If you can be happy, money is a great amplificator. If you can't, you can't buy it.

Happy to hear your meds are ok, keep going!

 

[Quiet Desperation]

My take is that money buys happiness up until the point you have stability and you don't have to constantly stress about not having it. A place to live, food to eat, able to pay the bills, have a little pocket money to enjoy life, and enough so that you don't have to stress about getting old.

After that sure it can buy you fancy things, but such purchases almost inevitably don't make you as happy as you think they will because the happiness they bring is fleeting. There's some science behind how the brain's reward system works that I find interesting. The TLDR is that we experience loss as a terrible tragedy but when we succeed we tend to just move the goalposts. More is never enough if you can't find some other meaning in your life.

I was really driven by money when I was younger, but my attitude changed when I got older. I started to value social relationships above everything else, because I think they are one of the only potential sources of enduring happiness. Misery too of course as I know well, but nothing is without risk.

 

[Fakereality]

Money can buy anything including happiness, sadness, suffering, enjoyment, pain, pleasure, lies, truth and many more more you name it you have it.

 

[callme]

Money can buy anything including happiness, sadness, suffering, enjoyment, pain, pleasure, lies, truth and many more more you name it you have it.

Yes, even the things people say they can't. Like friendship.

 

[A_miStake_of_NATURE]

It would probably buy me a few good years.

 

[ClownMe]

In my opinion, no, money cant buy happiness, the only way it can buy happiness is if the only reason you're sad is because you don't have much money, which is not the case for me. I could be the richest man in the world and id still be the poorest deep down, as cliche as that sounds.

 

[auror.]

Money brings stability, and stability makes room for happiness.

 

[Makko]

Where do they sell catboys?

 

[TheAmazingCriswell]

Where do they sell catboys?

What on earth is the appeal of these cat ears?

 

[callme]

What on earth is the appeal of these cat ears?

Yeah. Why not women OnlyFans? I'd like some big tits over here.

 

[Makko]

What on earth is the appeal of these cat ears?

It's a way to get a foot in. Someone who sells catboys can eventually put me in touch with someone who sells tentacle monsters

 

[TheAmazingCriswell]

tentacle monsters

Sounds expensive.

 

[Makko]

Sounds expensive.

I'm working overtime for a reason.

 

[FuneralCry]

Even if I had all the money in the world, I would still want to die. Having money can improve peoples lives but it does not guarantee happiness. It would not take away health problems though. I think in my case, the problem is life itself. Living does not appeal to me in any way and nothing would make me want to exist.

 

[stygal]

I - for one - would love to be rich & I would be happy with it (since I don't plan on ever getting old, I only think about the present)

I'd give a lot of it away to people who I think deserve it & I'd buy myself a house & never work again & spend everyday surrounded by animals/nature - pure bliss.

 

[Amacko]

It doesn't really make me happy, basically the more I have the less worries and problems I'll have as well.

 

[StevieNixs]

After I started taking medicine, some days are more bearable than others, but the longer I live, the clearer it becomes for me that nothing and no one will make me want to stay alive, other than money, I've always had a life of poverty and misery, I think if one day I'm successful maybe I can't enjoy the finer things in life

I have none and even if I was offered any I would have to say nope.

 

[callme]

I have none and even if I was offered any I would have to say nope.

Only assuming you are from the US Stevie, but I see that, just if I'm not wrong, the same way of seeing things when stuck in poverty for any lenght of time. I am lifelong poor behind the iron curtain and I feel the same way.

Why get free money if you are used to and always expected to work like a slave and why not being a slave to your job as it often is? Poverty sure makes one appreciate scarcity, time, using and having less, to a point where if you had a clear cut way to financial stability, you'd say no. It feels like taking a beating withjust a little something to show for it..

In any case, hope you are doing as best as you can, on a given day.

 

[xLosthopex]

Happiness? No. Although I do get temporary relief from my relentless psychological pain through impulsive spending and also get a kind of 'buzz' when I make a lot on a good night in work.
But when I am struggling financially it definitely does make things a lot worse, even if it's not the root cause of my problems

 

[Celerity]

Money would make it much easier for me to meet my goals, and it would set my mind at ease not to worry about the cost of medical care. I don't think it's capable on its own of making me happy. There are so many miserable rich people running around, after all. All of us are stuck on that hedonic treadmill that is life. The goalposts change, always. You can get what you want after so much longing only for the object of your desire to morph into yet another seemingly unobtainable thing.

 

[newave3]

Happiness? Not at all. I am way too numb to feel any kind of emotions ever again.
Money would just lessen my anxiety about being able to pay my bills. That's it.

 

[demuic]

Money would only fix 1-2 of my problems. I would still be stuck in this cruel world full of evil. I would still have no cure to any of the conditions ailing my mind. If I had a lot of money, I would do my best to help people who are struggling due to financial troubles before I CTB, but I would still CTB.

 

[StevieNixs]

Only assuming you are from the US Stevie, but I see that, just if I'm not wrong, the same way of seeing things when stuck in poverty for any lenght of time. I am lifelong poor behind the iron curtain and I feel the same way.

Why get free money if you are used to and always expected to work like a slave and why not being a slave to your job as it often is? Poverty sure makes one appreciate scarcity, time, using and having less, to a point where if you had a clear cut way to financial stability, you'd say no. It feels like taking a beating withjust a little something to show for it..

In any case, hope you are doing as best as you can, on a given day.

Maybe I need to clarify. I am not destitute. I have a car, a nice home - rented from a housing association. and I had savings up until last year when I used them to buy a car as my other car packed up. Never knew I was going to CTB last year. Things were bad but not as bad as they became this year. So I could sell the car and have money I guess, but I want to leave it to my brother. I have a credit card with a large limit. I guess I could use that - but I have no assets as such. I can afford food, to pay my bills. pay for my car, care for my cat, pay for my funeral plan and pet care plan and insurance stuff, etc - but not much else.. and I really do not care. I do not need money where I am going.

 

[newave3]

I can afford food, to pay my bills. pay for my car, care for my cat, pay for my funeral plan and pet care plan and insurance stuff, etc - but not much else.. and I really do not care. I do not need money where I am going.

Death,the great equalizer. Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Larry Page, the Walton family, just to name a few. All their billions mean nothing in the end.
Like the old cliche says "You can't take it with you."

 

[ven]

Death,the great equalizer. Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Larry Page, the Walton family, just to name a few. All their billions mean nothing in the end.
Like the old cliche says "You can't take it with you."

That's why Jeff Bezos is funding research to prolong human life. It'd be a sad day for humanity if he figures out how to extend his life indefinitely.

 

[Celerity]

Maybe I need to clarify. I am not destitute. I have a car, a nice home - rented from a housing association. and I had savings up until last year when I used them to buy a car as my other car packed up. Never knew I was going to CTB last year. Things were bad but not as bad as they became this year. So I could sell the car and have money I guess, but I want to leave it to my brother. I have a credit card with a large limit. I guess I could use that - but I have no assets as such. I can afford food, to pay my bills. pay for my car, care for my cat, pay for my funeral plan and pet care plan and insurance stuff, etc - but not much else.. and I really do not care. I do not need money where I am going.

If you don't mind me asking, what happened this past year that changed things for you?

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Gold digger gf is the only kind I don't want, tbh.

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

I feel this way too. I saw a commercial yesterday and it said "what do you care about more than money? Those are your values" and I was like "great, I have no values." Without money I can't get out of medical debt. I can't treat my undiagnosed condition. I'll be forever disrespected by others. I'll struggle into old age. So there's really no point in a life without decent money in my case.

 

[UseItOrLoseIt]

The only thing money brings me is not worrying about money.