Honestly, can money buy happiness?
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I may be a smart-ass here, but technically you´re just buying...well, whatever you need to buy to get to the snowboarding part. Actual fun comes from the very act of snowboarding, I presume. Money simply allows you to get to the fun. Difference is slight, but it´s there; you´re not buying fun, you´re buy things that allow you have fun. Lets say, for the sake of argument, that you have an accident and break both of your legs before you even get to the slope. How much fun do you get now from the money spent? I still hold on to the notion that money doesn´t turn into happiness instantly. It allows you to look for happiness, but you still have to go out find it yourself.Zac_Dai said:
And concerning friendship, I couldn´t agree with you more. You can buy people to hang around with you, but I really don´t consider sycophants as friends (much like, you can buy sex, but not love.)
To an extent. I think that material things can cause momentary happiness. I also have yet to see a homeless person that wasn't crazy and was absolutely joyous that he had no home. I think that the lack of money can cause sadness, but having money doesn't automatically make you happy.
I can't speak for the whole community. But I can say that personally I feel that you don't need money to be happy (you need it for the essentials, like food and such). However money can make living easier and therefore it can make one happier. It can also make them rather bored with life and degrade happiness.E-mantheseeker said:
Money is a middle man to happyness. There are things that can make people happy that require money. A transexual who needs the operation to feel happy needs the money to pay for it, though if they could just become the gender they feel without paying, they would also be happy. Also someone who just wants a stable life would need a stable amount of money to live fine without debts and worries. Also people have hobbies that make them happy as most of us know of one many here share and they require money. It is not the money itself that makes happyness, just often the only means of getting from point A to B.
well money is great for spending but if you dont have it what is there not nothing but there isnt much as you might think now love is better then money because love you can hold somebody you can kiss somebody you can give them back rubs masozhisss tickle there toes and you know just be sacure and be open with them wake up to a warm person and they will have your t shirt on and they breath stank and toes look cute and hair smell like shampooo and look them in the eyes and say i want a divorce and say buttercup just kidding and sing them songs and her/him sing you songs and come her hair or her comb your hair and hold hands and hold eachother and you know when the sun comes up and the moon comes up money isnt an the question so love is more beutiful
well money is great for spending but if you dont have it what is there to have nothing but there isnt much as you might think now love is better then money because love you can hold somebody you can kiss somebody you can give them back rubs masozhisss tickle there toes and you know just be sacure and be open with them wake up to a warm person and they will have your t shirt on and they breath stank and toes look cute and hair smell like shampooo and look them in the eyes and say i want a divorce and say buttercup just kidding and sing them songs and her/him sing you songs and comb her hair or her comb your hair and hold hands and hold eachother and you know when the sun comes up and the moon comes up money isnt an the question so love is more beutiful
As a person who hasnt had any income for ~6 months now, i can easily say that money would make my life Alot better, and yes, i would be more happy.
Anyone who says that money cant improve your life is full of shit, everything is better with money, it's very simple, and i know about the "philosophical" reasons why "happiness cant be bought", but that's all a hunk of bull, try and think of 1 example where it wouldnt be a good thing to be rich?
There are thousands of reasons why its bad to be poor and why it can make you less happy, but there is NOT A SINGLE reason why its bad to be rich.
Anyone who says that money cant improve your life is full of shit, everything is better with money, it's very simple, and i know about the "philosophical" reasons why "happiness cant be bought", but that's all a hunk of bull, try and think of 1 example where it wouldnt be a good thing to be rich?
There are thousands of reasons why its bad to be poor and why it can make you less happy, but there is NOT A SINGLE reason why its bad to be rich.
for some time now, a friend of my parents has suffered from cancer. he never told this explicitly, they found out by accident a few years ago.
when his own father died some many years ago, he was the heir to a fortune of real estate. he never sold it or used the money from it; instead he went on and used as little money as possible on himself and on his living. he continued this style of life, always scavenging for offers, always bringing home junk until the house he lived in wall full of it (literally, boxes upon boxes of stuff); he never threw anything out because he thought everything to be of at least some value.
20 or more years might have passed since his father died to present day. he is currently at his deathbed in a hospital. about a year ago, he met this one woman, who seemed interested in him and in caring for his last days of survival. my parents (and i assume he himself) quickly discovered that she was a "gold digger", claiming to serve and help him (but only really doing so when she thought others weren't watching). he never spoke of it; rather, keeping it a secret or a taboo that everyone knew - as with most things he did.
with the inevitable coming on, i think he has finally realized that the money he kept for so long has brought him nothing but misery. he has very few friends left because of his behavior/alienation towards them, and the only love he has had in his life has been one that was out for his money.
money can buy you a lot of things; a new car, a house, "friends" and perhaps "love". but money can never repair you if your spirit is broken. i'd go so far as to say that those people that are shallow, reveling in materialistic greed will never find true happiness. but this is not the fault of the money, but rather of the person using them.
when his own father died some many years ago, he was the heir to a fortune of real estate. he never sold it or used the money from it; instead he went on and used as little money as possible on himself and on his living. he continued this style of life, always scavenging for offers, always bringing home junk until the house he lived in wall full of it (literally, boxes upon boxes of stuff); he never threw anything out because he thought everything to be of at least some value.
20 or more years might have passed since his father died to present day. he is currently at his deathbed in a hospital. about a year ago, he met this one woman, who seemed interested in him and in caring for his last days of survival. my parents (and i assume he himself) quickly discovered that she was a "gold digger", claiming to serve and help him (but only really doing so when she thought others weren't watching). he never spoke of it; rather, keeping it a secret or a taboo that everyone knew - as with most things he did.
with the inevitable coming on, i think he has finally realized that the money he kept for so long has brought him nothing but misery. he has very few friends left because of his behavior/alienation towards them, and the only love he has had in his life has been one that was out for his money.
money can buy you a lot of things; a new car, a house, "friends" and perhaps "love". but money can never repair you if your spirit is broken. i'd go so far as to say that those people that are shallow, reveling in materialistic greed will never find true happiness. but this is not the fault of the money, but rather of the person using them.
That depends on your definition of happiness. If having money is your idea of happiness, then hells yes, money can buy it.