Has anyone ever asked a rich person if money buys happiness or are we all just taking poor people's word that it doesn't?
Those guys seem pretty happy to me.
Posted Dec 10, 2014, 5:18 AM UTC
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Yea it's one of those bullshit the rich tell to poor people so they can keep them at bay.
Scottish pearl of wisdom #1:
Money cannot buy happiness but somehow it is much more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than a bicycle.
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Money can buy comfort.
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Supposedly, one's happiness increases by quite a lot up until one is making a decent living, and then it quickly levels off.
Put another way, money can't buy happiness, but a lack of it can sure as fuck make life miserable.
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Money buys happiness up until you make $75,000 a year.
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That study said your "day-to-day happiness won't significantly increase" after making $75,000. I'm guessing they still found happier people with more money but they were happier note in the long term and just exponentially happier but comparatively happier.
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What about adjusting for inflation over time? $75,000 30 years from now will probably be very different from $75,000 today.
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Not sure. It's a recent study that was posted a few days ago.
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It was adjusted buy state i know that much. It was only 68k a year in Mississippi but 122k in Hawaii. The median was 75k.
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Advice from my rich Aunt, "Marry for money; you can always buy love."
Coincidentally, she married a rich guy. And as far as I can tell, she's had an awesome life: she travels the world, lives in a huge, beautiful home, has a big, happy family (as far as I can tell), loves her husband who loves her back, etc.
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Ask Phil Collins. 10 years ago, not needing any more money, he retired to be a dad for his newborn son. A couple of years later, his wife left him and took the kid. Now he doesn't live with any of his kids.
So he got Genesis back together and went on tour. Now along with a hearing problem he has a nerve problem in his hands and can't hold a pair of drumsticks properly.
So he decided recently he was going to just sing, as the finale of a benefit concert. Now he's ill and can't even sing and has to cancel.
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Clearly, what Phil needs is more money.
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Is mayonnaise an instrument?
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of weight gain, yes.
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Kurt Cobain..?
Robin Williams..?
Every other Saudi Arabian prince who is so fed up with life and ends up overdosing on heroin?
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wait a second...doesnt heroin make you happy though? so it DOES buy happiness!!!
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It's called heroin because it apparently makes you feel heroic. You think Batman was happy?
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the first two had a disease, depression. Theres a difference between asking if money can make a normal person happy, or if money can cure depression, which it obviously cannot.
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Their depression could of and most likely for Robin Williams came after he made his money.
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Can money buy you sadness?
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It can buy things that make you sad
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Like tickets to see Phil Collins, apparently.
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Rich people seem to be happier than poor people. Just saying...
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Well, I had an encounter with a man outside a restaurant that went something like this.
He offered me some cigarettes and stated his wife would kill him if he brought them back with her knowing. I obliged, free cigs even though they were a shit name brand. We get to talking, what do you do -- yada yada, and come to find out he's a pharmaceutical sales rep and has bee nfor almost 15 years.
He dressed fancy, and had on nice clothes, I was sitting there on a saturday in my sweats just hanging out. Anyhow, after I told him I am a recent grad and looking for a job, he kind of wised up a bit. He pestered me about what I want from life, my dreams, goals, etc etc -- and my main focus was obviously: money, money, job, regardless of the job type.
He kind of looked at me intently and asked this question: "Would you rather make $ 200,000 and you end up not shitting right for two months due to stress, or would you work your current job making 40,000$ ok with life, getting by properly (of course not greatly), and in the middle class." I told him the first option would be the obvious choice, minus the trouble pooping of course (yes this is real).
He continued to tell me that with money comes life changes: first your car, then you want to upgrade your car, and you have a new house, everything is great, but you want more things to put into your new house, cause shit you have all this money, but then you wife wants a new ring because you have all this new money, and then you have kids, god kids, cess pool of money ravaging things they are.
This is all true, i promise you and it was a cool experience. But his last line was something to the effect of: when you job changes, your money changes, and when your money changes your life changes, you get accustomed to spending 100$ at dinner instead of 25$ and you get accustomed to having new things. He told me that life isn't always greener on the other side, and yes he has money, but 4/5th's of it goes straight to bills instead of things that would normally make him happy.
I got his name and number for a possibility of job but he kind of frightened me out of that. I guess if he reads this, I'm still interested, sorta.
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I say money buys happiness and sadness at the same time in roughly equal proportions.
But I may be biased.
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There was an askreddit about this a while ago. The answer was that technically yes, by removing a ton of the causes of sadness.
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Ask Robin Williams... Oh yeah...
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Have you not watched The Wolf of Wallstreet
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I grew up very poor. Not suburban we didn't have an Xbox poor, but we didn't have heat in winter and sweet Jesus I hope school lunch is big today poor. Could have had it much worse for sure but it's worth mentioning for perspective.The universe did indeed drop fabulous inherited wealth out of the aether on my head in my mid-twenties. I can promise you for a verifiable fact money has zero impact on happiness. The things that truly matter cannot be bought. If real family and love are missing from your life no amount of money or things will ever fill that void. If anything it makes it worse. You are surrounded by all the things that are supposed to bring ecstasy to the human existence, but somehow you only feel worse. Your friends will resent you for it as well. "If I had everything you have, man it would be so amazing!!! You have no right to be sad!" Wealth is meaningless. Family. Love. Accomplishment. A sense of worth. These are the things that matter. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. Things are just things. They can't make you happy. Not stressing about bills is nice but at the end of the day it's a small luxury. Wealth is it own set of problems. It has not brought me personally a single moment of happiness.
Edit: Lots of spelling. I know. Phones man.
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Does Money Buy Happiness? Immediate good fortune(i.e. winning the lottery) does not lead to long term happiness. Happiness is found to be a continuous process associated with making an effort to enjoy simple daily pleasures, people, or situations.
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Sure, money can't buy happiness. All the assets in the world can't complete self-fufillment. However, as the once great philosopher Daniel Tosh said,
"Money doesn't buy happiness? It buys a Wave Runner. You ever see a sad person on a Wave Runner? Try to frown on a Wave Runner."
Money can also buy very expensive therapists and life coaches who can help you find happiness.