Only poor people think money doesn't buy happiness

[QUOTE="HardcoreGamer84"]How does it NOT buy you happiness?

ALL people like financial security.
If there are two guys of comprable looks. One is a bartender the other is a lawyer. Which one would the girl be more inclined to go towards?

I'm not saying love doesn't mean more than money...but money is important.

You can buy a better education for your kids. Knowing your kids are getting the best education they can = happiness

More money = more financial security = less stress = happiness

More cars, more clothes, more vacations, more everything.


Someone tell me how money doesn't buy happiness.CreasianDevaili

Cause that girl who goes to the lawyer will go to the next best thing soon enough. You bought the chance to bang her, and once she is done, she moves on. Of course when you get a terminal disease or something I am sure all the love by the ladies to get into your will shall be worth it.

Sure, giving your kids the best education is wonderful. However what is to say they would care? Cause the money is back home. So you can buy it all you want but unless your able to motivate them to not CARE about the security behind them they wont get past it and truely succeed on their own.

Your confused over that money does. It allows you to do more things that are already important to you. Money doesnt make something important to you. If anything, it makes things you obtain with it have less meaning because all of it can be easily replaced.

Money supports your happiness with options to do something on the whim. However it dosent make it. You can have everything in the world but if your so paranoid that every girl is only after your money..

I knew a guy way back. Played the stocks. Made alittle over 3 million dollars. He is LONELY as hell because he sees everyone wanting to be with him only wanting his money. It is hard, sometimes impossible, to tell the difference. He has nothing to spent the money on. Hes a rather humble guy. But everytime he came over to play cards he would talk and talk and talk and talk about every single thing.

Sometimes it is the ones who have the money, who lose somebody to a disease or accident that money cant buy/repair that take it the hardest because they realize that regardless of how much money you got it only counts on how happy you already were.

Money supports. Money dosent make happiness.

Very well written.

Money facilitates opportunities, but it is far from a passport to happiness.

[QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"][QUOTE="Sajedene"][QUOTE="harashawn"][QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"]

Money can buy homes, cars, and women. What more could ya want?

Lockedge

Those three things are the most important things in the world. You are absolutely right...

If I say that my family, my career, and my education are the three most important things in the world -- I am sure with money, is a huge factor in satisfying the needs of those three which results in my (and my family's) happiness.

It may not directly buy it, but with it, can fuel that happiness. Otherwise, couples will not divorce due to financial troubles, people will not kill themselves (and their family) over it, and wars will not be fought because of it.

This is also the perfect time to say -- it is also the root of all evil as money brings about greed and envy and all the other deadly sins.

If you was rich you wouldn't have to worry about boring stuff like education.

People who think Education is boring...probably won't have smart or motivated kids.

educational systems are boring, yes.

Education, as a concept, is great though. Hell if I was rich, my kids would be homeschooled and I would take them to Paris to study art at the Louvre.

Nah, I would never home school my kids (or private school them), but you see what I mean

Article based on a study that was done:

Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness

I admit it's kind of weird to ask people to quantify their own happiness, but it's not like there is really much of a better alternative method.

SpaceMoose

Just now I came across this seemingly contradictory article. *shrug*

It's all about the money main. Throwing dollar bills up in the clubs ya feel me.xboxplayer1990

[QUOTE="CreasianDevaili"]

[QUOTE="HardcoreGamer84"]How does it NOT buy you happiness?

ALL people like financial security.
If there are two guys of comprable looks. One is a bartender the other is a lawyer. Which one would the girl be more inclined to go towards?

I'm not saying love doesn't mean more than money...but money is important.

You can buy a better education for your kids. Knowing your kids are getting the best education they can = happiness

More money = more financial security = less stress = happiness

More cars, more clothes, more vacations, more everything.


Someone tell me how money doesn't buy happiness.hrmuffnstuff

Cause that girl who goes to the lawyer will go to the next best thing soon enough. You bought the chance to bang her, and once she is done, she moves on. Of course when you get a terminal disease or something I am sure all the love by the ladies to get into your will shall be worth it.

Sure, giving your kids the best education is wonderful. However what is to say they would care? Cause the money is back home. So you can buy it all you want but unless your able to motivate them to not CARE about the security behind them they wont get past it and truely succeed on their own.

Your confused over that money does. It allows you to do more things that are already important to you. Money doesnt make something important to you. If anything, it makes things you obtain with it have less meaning because all of it can be easily replaced.

Money supports your happiness with options to do something on the whim. However it dosent make it. You can have everything in the world but if your so paranoid that every girl is only after your money..

I knew a guy way back. Played the stocks. Made alittle over 3 million dollars. He is LONELY as hell because he sees everyone wanting to be with him only wanting his money. It is hard, sometimes impossible, to tell the difference. He has nothing to spent the money on. Hes a rather humble guy. But everytime he came over to play cards he would talk and talk and talk and talk about every single thing.

Sometimes it is the ones who have the money, who lose somebody to a disease or accident that money cant buy/repair that take it the hardest because they realize that regardless of how much money you got it only counts on how happy you already were.

Money supports. Money dosent make happiness.

Very well written.

Money facilitates opportunities, but it is far from a passport to happiness.

A very well written hypothesis with one example indeed.

You say "Money supports but doesnt make happiness". I can easily replace money with the words family, husband, wife, kids, education, dog, cat, etc. and it will still work.

Everything is a facilitator to ones happiness -- it is the outcome of these things put together is what creates happiness.

That saying just means that money can't buy you a girlfriend/partner.Bloodbath_87

Honestly, that is such ****.

[QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"]It's all about the money main. Throwing dollar bills up in the clubs ya feel me.Xeros606

holy krap!!! we need to get s Raptor Priest here to do some exorsizing.

[QUOTE="Lockedge"][QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"][QUOTE="Sajedene"][QUOTE="harashawn"][QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"]

Money can buy homes, cars, and women. What more could ya want?

mrbojangles25

Those three things are the most important things in the world. You are absolutely right...

If I say that my family, my career, and my education are the three most important things in the world -- I am sure with money, is a huge factor in satisfying the needs of those three which results in my (and my family's) happiness.

It may not directly buy it, but with it, can fuel that happiness. Otherwise, couples will not divorce due to financial troubles, people will not kill themselves (and their family) over it, and wars will not be fought because of it.

This is also the perfect time to say -- it is also the root of all evil as money brings about greed and envy and all the other deadly sins.

If you was rich you wouldn't have to worry about boring stuff like education.

People who think Education is boring...probably won't have smart or motivated kids.

educational systems are boring, yes.

Education, as a concept, is great though. Hell if I was rich, my kids would be homeschooled and I would take them to Paris to study art at the Louvre.

Nah, I would never home school my kids (or private school them), but you see what I mean

If I had kids, and money, their summer break would be both awesome and interesting. Two weeks would be separated from the calendar: one for learning, one for fun. First week is going to a place to learn interesting things and show the kids learning IS fun, so long as it's approached in the correct way. The following week would be like a vacation someplace awesome.

So they could both go to Hawaii on a vacation, and learn about tectonics and physical geography. Or visit Italy and Greece, and learn about the art movements. Fun stuff. :D

[QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"]It's all about the money main. Throwing dollar bills up in the clubs ya feel me.Xeros606

Is that a face of freckles, or does that kid have immense impending skin cancer from tanning too much?

I honestly can't tell.

Your kids would clean your bank account and run away mainxboxplayer1990

Yeah main, listen to this main, main, or it may end up being your main regret...main.

[QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"]Your kids would clean your bank account and run away mainFortier

Yeah main, listen to this main, main, or it may end up being your main regret...main.

Yo main you abusing the word main cool it abit

[QUOTE="Fortier"]

[QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"]Your kids would clean your bank account and run away mainxboxplayer1990

Yeah main, listen to this main, main, or it may end up being your main regret...main.

Yo main you abusing the word main cool it abit

Ai'ight, main.

No matter how much money I spend I never seem to be completely happy... I always feel as if there is something missing from my life.foxhound_fox

Probably a breakfast at Denny's.

Watch Citizen Kane.web966

I agree with this.

And I gotta say, I use to be quite wealthy when I lived with my parents, since my dad had a really great job. I was pretty spoiled through my childhood, and they even wanted to pay for my apartment when I moved out. I didn't let them though, I figured I'd never get anywhere like that and they were hurting more than anything else, so I pay for all my own stuff now. Overall, I'm much happier being poor as ****. And, as a side note, the whole "money doesn't buy happiness" phrase isn't referring to financial security, it's talking about having more money than you need (like being truly rich) and spending it on things you don't need.

[QUOTE="Sajedene"][QUOTE="hrmuffnstuff"]

[QUOTE="xboxplayer1990"]This theory fails and here's why. I'd consider myself lower middle class and I know for a fact if I was rich I'd be ALOT happier. lonewolf604

You are who you are, and money only makes you a rich miserable person.

How many rich miserable people do you know?

you beat me too it. I was gonna say go turn on MTV/VH1/E/ or another channel like that and watch some reality TV

No matter how much money I spend I never seem to be completely happy... I always feel as if there is something missing from my life.foxhound_fox

No matter how much money I spend I never seem to be completely happy... I always feel as if there is something missing from my life.foxhound_fox

I find that a lot of people can tell you what they think they would want to buy if money was not a factor, but then when you ask them what they would actually spend their time doing, it's usually one of three things: travel, do pretty much the same stuff that they do now, or that they don't know.

It can't buy happiness, but it certainly helps.

I know a rich couple, and they are very happy, but I am sure that they will still be happy if they are poor.

Your kids would clean your bank account and run away mainxboxplayer1990

Not all kids are spoil brats.

Money does not buy happiness, it only buys distractionsFrKnPuertoRican

Naw having no money is what causes distractions.

[QUOTE="hrmuffnstuff"][QUOTE="CreasianDevaili"]

[QUOTE="HardcoreGamer84"]How does it NOT buy you happiness?

ALL people like financial security.
If there are two guys of comprable looks. One is a bartender the other is a lawyer. Which one would the girl be more inclined to go towards?

I'm not saying love doesn't mean more than money...but money is important.

You can buy a better education for your kids. Knowing your kids are getting the best education they can = happiness

More money = more financial security = less stress = happiness

More cars, more clothes, more vacations, more everything.


Someone tell me how money doesn't buy happiness.Sajedene

Cause that girl who goes to the lawyer will go to the next best thing soon enough. You bought the chance to bang her, and once she is done, she moves on. Of course when you get a terminal disease or something I am sure all the love by the ladies to get into your will shall be worth it.

Sure, giving your kids the best education is wonderful. However what is to say they would care? Cause the money is back home. So you can buy it all you want but unless your able to motivate them to not CARE about the security behind them they wont get past it and truely succeed on their own.

Your confused over that money does. It allows you to do more things that are already important to you. Money doesnt make something important to you. If anything, it makes things you obtain with it have less meaning because all of it can be easily replaced.

Money supports your happiness with options to do something on the whim. However it dosent make it. You can have everything in the world but if your so paranoid that every girl is only after your money..

I knew a guy way back. Played the stocks. Made alittle over 3 million dollars. He is LONELY as hell because he sees everyone wanting to be with him only wanting his money. It is hard, sometimes impossible, to tell the difference. He has nothing to spent the money on. Hes a rather humble guy. But everytime he came over to play cards he would talk and talk and talk and talk about every single thing.

Sometimes it is the ones who have the money, who lose somebody to a disease or accident that money cant buy/repair that take it the hardest because they realize that regardless of how much money you got it only counts on how happy you already were.

Money supports. Money dosent make happiness.

Very well written.

Money facilitates opportunities, but it is far from a passport to happiness.

A very well written hypothesis with one example indeed.

You say "Money supports but doesnt make happiness". I can easily replace money with the words family, husband, wife, kids, education, dog, cat, etc. and it will still work.

Everything is a facilitator to ones happiness -- it is the outcome of these things put together is what creates happiness.

A greater happiness yes. However everyone has something that they hold dear the most. Something that makes them happy and everyone else compounds that one aspect and all together makes the happiness grow even bigger.

As you said. Money can be replaced with many words and it works. But it has to support something, and happiness isnt the word but the reflection of it. Having 10 million dollars might all be spent to save the life with non covered medicine/treatment of a loved one, and in that money has supported one's happiness and allowed it to last but abit longer.

The guy i listed is still alone. Getting up there in age. Never found someone because he became so paranoid. He started driving old rusty cars and bought a very small home that was very humble. He lived as poor as he could in order to maybe prove to him that someone attracted to him would be only for him. Yet everytime he met someone, it was the money that got in the way.

I always believe it was because he had all this support but it supported nothing. Since the support came in before the happiness itself, he never actually became truely happy. So he lives alone. Since he drove all of his friends away and never found a lady to share his time with.

Kinda sad in many ways.

Kind of goes along with those who make money often appreciate it and become more happy cause they had things that they truely loved before they got rich. Then when the kids grow up they dont have that appreciation. Thus, and many times, those kids just become unhappy adults with money and nothing more than farce distractions.

How does it NOT buy you happiness?

ALL people like financial security.
If there are two guys of comprable looks. One is a bartender the other is a lawyer. Which one would the girl be more inclined to go towards?

I'm not saying love doesn't mean more than money...but money is important.

You can buy a better education for your kids. Knowing your kids are getting the best education they can = happiness

More money = more financial security = less stress = happiness

More cars, more clothes, more vacations, more everything.


Someone tell me how money doesn't buy happiness.HardcoreGamer84

Meh. I would rather date a bartender than a lawyer. I'm just personally not very fond of dating professional people. It makes me feel inadaquate and constantly doubting myself, because I'm not as good as he is. Alot of working cla** women feel this way.

I don't have kids or ever want them so i don't have to worry about that.

More money doesn't always equal less stress. You may have to worry about security on your property as well as landscaping, multiple car payments, a big mortgage. While you may have money to do this kind of stuff, actually getting it done may be pretty stressful.

One car is fine for me, I have a closet full of clothes, I take three vacations a year, I don't need anymore

edit: By the way, you have a double negative in one of your sentances. You are saying that love doesn't means more than money

Not true, plenty of poor people believe money can buy happiness and rich people believe it can't and all things in-between.

I don't personally mind if I have more or less money. It's down to what exactly makes you as an individual happy. Some need companionship, some need love, some need money. You can't label people based on their wealth.

Money=more things=more power=more responsibility=more stress=forgetting who you are=unhappiness.fidosim

Totally not true. That's something poor people say.

A good financial education is more important than a college education, trust me I have both.

Your love may give me thrills, but honey it won't pay my bills, I WANT MONEY!!

No, but seriously, The only people who say that are the one's who aren't as financially independent, it's a way for people with less money to be able to cope with the fact that they will never have as much money as the next guy. It's pitiful really, but I blame the person, because they could just have easily have gone to law or medical, or even business school, but they chose to slack, party, and worry over relationships, you know, stupid things. So what would you rather be, young, happy and old and broke, or would you rather study maintain a job, and then go up? It's the people who are either born rich, or get an education that become rich.

Your love may give me thrills, but honey it won't pay my bills, I WANT MONEY!!

No, but seriously, The only people who say that are the one's who aren't as financially independent, it's a way for people with less money to be able to cope with the fact that they will never have as much money as the next guy. It's pitiful really, but I blame the person, because they could just have easily have gone to law or medical, or even business school, but they chose to slack, party, and worry over relationships, you know, stupid things. So what would you rather be, young, happy and old and broke, or would you rather study maintain a job, and then go up? It's the people who are either born rich, or get an education that become rich.

[QUOTE="fidosim"]Money=more things=more power=more responsibility=more stress=forgetting who you are=unhappiness.Ultimator777

Totally not true. That's something poor people say.

A good financial education is more important than a college education, trust me I have both.

You can't say that's not true, because it is true for some people. I've seen it happen. Everone is different, everyone values different things. To say one thing is universally important for happiness is asinine.

How does it not get u happy???

you cannot have money problems with anything whatsoever. buy whatever you want, when ever u want. Travel Almost anywhere on Earth AND u can either help the needy or help save the earth.

How can u feel bad if you just gave a crippled Indian squater enough money to buy enough food to last him atleast a month?

or if you just gave 1 million dollars to help cure cancer?

Money hasn't bought me happiness but man it's sure made living with misery awfully fun..I kid I kid..I think the mindset of money=happiness is slightly askew.euphzilla03

Money allows for more distractions. Until you reach the point where they dont let you forget how you really feel.