Does money bring your happiness?

[fruit-loops]

Maybe not directly, but it will allow you to freely find happiness, instead of being in a taxying paying worker slave for your entire life

 

[motel rooms]

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

Top this, bitches!

 

[Makko]

Top this, bitches!


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When tenants can't pay rent I'll be attaching this picture to the eviction notice.

 

[Celerity]

Top this, bitches!


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Stuart Wilde can get fucked.

Looked him up. Looks like this is not his first rodeo with peddling condescending BS.

 

[Makko]

Stuart Wilde can get fucked.

Looked him up. Looks like this is not his first rodeo with peddling condescending BS.

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That Dean Radin fellow sounds even better: "Real Magic: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science and a Guide to the Secret Power of the Universe". Hmm, so I get all that for $24,50? How generous.

 

[Deleted member 8975]

Not. At. ALL.

 

[deflationary]

Would probably move me a bit closer to happiness while still falling well short of it.

 

[callme]

Here's an analogy, not good, but:

Poor is like being a great forward - everybody passes to ya, everybody wants you to score, but every time you are in front of goal - you miss. You have 99% of what you need, but you never will have the rest 1%, and if you don't have that, you will be always miserable. You know, if you score you're a hero, if you miss you're a villain. And goals are everything in football.

Rich is like being hated - nobody likes you, nobody passes to you and you're mediocre, but most of the time you score. You can CHOOSE to be miserable over not having those 99%, BUT you have the 1% needed to correct them.

Obviouly, I'm just sketchjng here all people as black and white, but it serves a consolation for broke people.
*sigh* What could a man ever want? A yacht in Tahiti, a black caviar sandwich, a Beverly Hills apartment..

We must value the small things in life.

 

[stellabelle]

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

Money doesn't matter or change anything. It is a tool. Material possessions are just that.
respect or decency was all that mattered to me. I was repeatedly lied to, screamed at, fucked with, and pushed to the point of insanity. I've learned over time that nothing really does get better and people just play stupid little games. For all the money in the world I wouldn't even want to keep going, I'd just want to use it to get someplace better and help others. Unfortunately I was denied that kind of help to get out of domestic violence and abuse. The cycles of abuse in the family only continued. I was never good enough. I made so much but I didn't care about stuff. It was cool to have but I wanted to give it all away and instead of someone helping me do that, they basically just stole it.
People are obsessed with money, sex, and possessions. It's absolutely disgusting. They use and abuse and use and abuse and then discard you. They say they're "so worried" but they never listen to you, respect you, or help you. I would've done anything to just be loved. Not for my body or possessions but for my time or effort. I was just repeatedly disrespected and told I was always wrong and never good enough and to enjoy facing my abusers every day. I cannot stand it. I miss my real friends and the people who respected me, not the ones who lied and blamed me for what happened, not the ones who stepped on me and played this little rag doll game. I'm so very devastated that I basically just do everything wrong on purpose and feel stupid 24/7 because I was told I could never do anything right. I basically just don't care at this point. I wish I had fentanyl pills and I could just end it after all of the torment. That I could get out of it, or that the people who did this to me will suffer a very ugly demise. It's devastating through and through.

I can't focus, my education has been ripped away, my jobs, my dignity, my decency, I was better off dead and shouldn't have ever gone for help, I should've just done it right when I was 12 because the rest of it was a waste, they never loved me, they never loved me, they never loved me.

 

[Shadowplay]

It'd provide a way to CTB so yeah probably.

 

[TheHatedOne]

Money lets you buy food and have water and shelter, clothes, hobbies (videogaming, painting, reading to name some examples) which in turn will make you happy (for a bit of course). That's why I say that for the good things that people think make life worth it you have to work your ass off for some pieces of paper in order to afford these good things. Even sex which is the best thing ever according to most people you need money to make yourself beautiful because no one will want to have sex with ugly, deformed persons.

So yeah, money itself doesn't make us happy but it's the key to the things that will make us happy.

 

[existtosuffer]

I chased after more money & a better job at a younger age. Got it and still felt depressed.

Drugs were the only things that kept me functioning before they stopped working.

The fact we're just here to survive just takes all the excitement out of life for me. It's why many rich, famous people kill themselves.

 

[Darkmoon Queen]

Endless money would bring me temporary lulz because I'd enjoy rubbing it in the faces of people who dropped me. But I don't know how much actual happiness it could bring. Let's just say I'm willing to try.

 

[netrezven]

Money is just a tool based on a public contract and believe. As long as people are happy to accept it, i'm happy too.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski. And you never see an unhappy person riding a jet ski." - Bill Hicks

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Yes. It can buy a graphics card.

 

[Freedom Believer]

For me, it would solve most of my problems. At least I would know that I'd have the money to have a roof over my head and survive, and not be kicked out. And, if the money is sufficient, not have to work and be able to enjoy life.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Well it can bring you some of the things that can bring happiness though the means of obtaining money might cancel out that happiness.

 

[motel rooms]

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski. And you never see an unhappy person riding a jet ski." - Bill Hicks

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy manwhores. And you never see an unhappy guy riding a manwhore." - @hotelbeneathground

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[Yogobro298]

It definitely would for me right now

 

[Disappointered]

Money doesn't actually matter until you don't have any. Then it matters. The threshold is relatively low though. After basic needs it's diminishing returns.

 

[callme]

Money doesn't actually matter until you don't have any. Then it matters. The threshold is relatively low though. After basic needs it's diminishing returns.

Which makes the people below the treshold screwed

 

[Disappointered]

Which makes the people below the treshold screwed

You're not wrong, I can't argue. But my guess is that if and when tptb (anyone can ask me who I think they are in private...or can they??) roll out universal basic income or whatever they end up calling it, the suicide rate won't change much.

 

[summers]

I think experiences bring a lot more happiness than possessions. Money allows for you to do the things you enjoy and make you feel alive. So in this regard, money can buy happiness.

For example, I love concerts. Money allows me to go and enjoy myself. No matter what, those memories will always be with me, and I can always rely on them to bring me back to a better time. Not a permanent happiness, but a great experience.

 

[irememberinnocence]

I think money would buy me some security in life, which would certainly give me more happiness than what I have now existing in survival mode. However in my position it still wouldn't make much difference as it wouldn't fix the fact that my body is falling apart from a horrible disease. It could patch a few things over, but not stop the progression of damage unfortunately. And experiencing things like having pieces of tooth fall out or struggling to breathe after eating do not make me happy.

 

[CFLoser]

Maybe

 

[Meditation guide]

It brings me a measure of contentment.

 

[Manaaja]

Yes for most people and even a bit for me, but I think getting things magically>money.

Imagine that you got 50 000€ right now. You bought a car with it, soon after got into a car crash because you accidentally forgot to put the handbrake on, and the insurance company wouldn't pay you because it was your fault. That's 50 000€ gone into ashes.

Now imagine that you magically got a car every time you did five good things. You could just help your younger sibling with homework five times and tada a brand new car. You could clean your room five times and get a spare car.

I want to live on a plane where you get things magically and no money exists.

 

[luten]

you first need to find out what makes you happy, then you trade money for that thing/experience. If it did not make you happy, then you have made a bad trade.

I find that happiness comes when things are in balance, a balanced lifestyle. Example; You bought a supercar, and a mansion, but you have no friends, no family, no pets, you are all alone, plus you have a drinking problem, and addicted to porn, oh, and you 60 years old, how happy are you going to be? Such person can go out and aquire more things, ignoring the fact that he has no balance/stability in life, which will bring contentment, and appreciation for what he already has

 

[Makko]

Yes for most people and even a bit for me, but I think getting things magically>money.

Imagine that you got 50 000€ right now. You bought a car with it, soon after got into a car crash because you accidentally forgot to put the handbrake on, and the insurance company wouldn't pay you because it was your fault. That's 50 000€ gone into ashes.

Now imagine that you magically got a car every time you did five good things. You could just help your younger sibling with homework five times and tada a brand new car. You could clean your room five times and get a spare car.

I want to live on a plane where you get things magically and no money exists.

Money is a form of magic already, but like in any good dark fantasy setting it takes more to cast the big spells than performing low-effort mundane tasks a few times.