Only poor people think money doesn't buy happiness

Money can't guarentee you happiness, but it sure helps.:D

Anyone who believes that they are exempt from this is outright lying.

although you can practically buy just about anything you want itz hard to trust ppl. sometimes you don't know who is real anymore. ppl will suck up to you, be jealous of you, beg from you, want to steal from you and tell you how to spend your money. it can get depressing and lonely at times, especially when you have wealthy friends that are snobbish and you're not.

More money = more financial security = less stress = happiness

HardcoreGamer84

Ahem, my father has a high paying job which is very stressful

therefore more money =/= less stress.

And I think there are a lot of poor people who DO think money buys happiness.

The fact is the money isn't buying the happiness, the happiness comes from enjoying an action. I enjoy stuff more with friends, not cause I have the money to buy things.

I suggest looking up "Richard Cory" a song based off of a poem about a man who had nearly everything, money, boats, wild parties, etc. But in the end he kills himself because he isn't happy by just having money, he doesn't know if people love him for him or if his "friends" just like him for his money.

[QUOTE="canary7"]Money can't buy me love! :(JangoWuzHere

yes it can.

ya Money countols everything ya know:)

What if you would only be happy with a girl who doesn't regard money highly as most supposedly do according to stereotypes? Then you have no advantage and a probably disadvantage because money can distort your personality.

Education, vacation, cars clothes, that's not happines, sure some people can be happy having all those, but that's not buying happiness, there is still better things in life and you don't even have to be rich to have them, like the love of your lifedragon7x2k

I've seen a study showing men with better career having more attractive wives.

Just saying.

You can have everything and still have nothing.

All I'm going to say is that if I had $20,000 more per month, I'd be frolicking through dewey meadows from my happiness.

Money does buy happiness. It provides emotional security, it allows you to sleep at night, it keeps creditors off your back, you can buy whatever you want.

depends on whether less stress is happiness or not.

IMO too little stress would be extremely boring.

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

[QUOTE="martialbullet"]Money can't buy me true happiness......just things to fill in the void.Doom_HellKnight

This is what I was thinking, shallow.

[QUOTE="dragon7x2k"]Education, vacation, cars clothes, that's not happines, sure some people can be happy having all those, but that's not buying happiness, there is still better things in life and you don't even have to be rich to have them, like the love of your lifeSuperbored

I've seen a study showing men with better career having more attractive wives.

Just saying.

who tend to divorce you and get half your stuff. :P

Hey, I won't lie, I would love to have more money. But I try to make good with what I have and so far it has been working for me. Yeah, the occasional expensive device comes around that I would just love to have but after-awhile I just get over it and come to grips that it really isn't necessary. But that's just me; making the best of what I own and can afford.

It probably varies from person to person, whether if money makes you happy or not.

this is exactly whats wrong with todays society. the whole system is designed to keep a few people rich at the expense of the suffering of many. think about that food you tore from a starving childs mouth the next time you eat smoked salmon at a restaurant. and worse than that, the media brainwashes us into thinking that this is what will give us happiness?

here a clue: real happiness is free.

this is exactly whats wrong with todays society. the whole system is designed to keep a few people rich at the expense of the suffering of many. think about that food you tore from a starving childs mouth the next time you eat smoked salmon at a restaurant. and worse than that, the media brainwashes us into thinking that this is what will give us happiness?

here a clue: real happiness is free.

x_Martyr_x

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

can't see that happening with me i find

more money = less stress = less satisfaction from having money = unhappiness

but that'sonly with money by itself and continuing the life you had when you didn't have so much money, if you have money you don't have to worry about it and do what you want such as just relaxing in nice coffee houses reading a book and not doing what most people would do if they were rich and just buy loads of games and movies ect and never work again

The only thing money needs to do is allow you to fill your basic needs. After that, you have to make yourself happy.Jandurin

I find it helps when you don't have to worry about it, i don't mean you can buy a Ferrari everyday but you can simply get on and and as long as you're ssensible can buy what you want. When i had my job i found it made things easyer though i wasn't happier as i just spent on things i didn't really need and i found no satisfaction in buying them as it was easy to get the money.

Money helps in making you more relaxed so you can just say yes for the anything that you would normallly do but past that it's up to you to find your own happyness.

Your missing the whole point of the saying, "Money doesn't buy happiness." It's not saying that it can't make you happy, I'm sure anybody would be happy to be able to own whatever they want. I know I would. But people are most likely only gonna like you for your money, especially a future wife. Women are the worst when it comes to gold digging, It's why I don't have a gf right now. However, not all people are like that. Some people will appreciate you for who you are. MasterKingMP

having everything that you could want just lowers thier value to you, personally i wouldn't be happy just being super rich and not doing anything i'ld want to work or do charity work or help people round the community

[QUOTE="MasterKingMP"]Your missing the whole point of the saying, "Money doesn't buy happiness." It's not saying that it can't make you happy, I'm sure anybody would be happy to be able to own whatever they want. I know I would. But people are most likely only gonna like you for your money, especially a future wife. Women are the worst when it comes to gold digging, It's why I don't have a gf right now. However, not all people are like that. Some people will appreciate you for who you are. markop2003

having everything that you could want just lowers thier value to you, personally i wouldn't be happy just being super rich and not doing anything i'ld want to work or do charity work or help people round the community

The only reason being rich would be badass is so I didn't have to work. I'm lazy working sucks.

Money can't buy me love! :(canary7

Rock on Paul Mccartney!

[QUOTE="markop2003"]

[QUOTE="MasterKingMP"]Your missing the whole point of the saying, "Money doesn't buy happiness." It's not saying that it can't make you happy, I'm sure anybody would be happy to be able to own whatever they want. I know I would. But people are most likely only gonna like you for your money, especially a future wife. Women are the worst when it comes to gold digging, It's why I don't have a gf right now. However, not all people are like that. Some people will appreciate you for who you are. MasterKingMP

having everything that you could want just lowers thier value to you, personally i wouldn't be happy just being super rich and not doing anything i'ld want to work or do charity work or help people round the community

The only reason being rich would be badass is so I didn't have to work. I'm lazy working sucks.

when you don't work everything tends to loose it's worth, money just dosn't have that much worth unless it's in short supply or you had to work hard for it

[QUOTE="canary7"]Money can't buy me love! :(cousin_eddy

Rock on Paul Mccartney!

i'm sure soon enough ebay will provide

Meh, too many variables.

Right now I make about 14k a year after taxes. Its enough to pay rent and go drinking with friends a few times a month. I have a fun job, good friends, and I am the happiest I've ever been...yet I am also at my least financially stable. If I am careful, I might have an extra 60 dollars a month to throw into my savings.

Compared with my youth, and my college career where my parents supported my housing and bills sitution, I am poor but I am happy.

So, its varies.

Its funny, though, because I was talking to my parents about how little I make for being a college grad and my dad was like "dont worry, once you get a job you get with your degree and you start making real money, going from 14k a year to 40k a year will make it seem like its raining money."

Thats was very comforting.

mrbojangles25

the thing i find the most interesting is everyone's definition of wealth and comfort.

i make $25,000 per year, and with my fiance living with me, our household income is nearly $50,000, but it still feels like we don't have enough money. it could be because we are paying back a lot in student loans, but we still manage to save at least $400 or $500 every month without really sacrificing anything. We live on a budget, but it's ample enough.

Then I'm reminded of what it was like when I was working 60 hours a week and barely making enough to get by.

Wealth isn't happiness. But having enough sure does reduce stress. (Being able to budget $100 a month for video games is nice, too!)

Tell that to Bill gates who's giving money away left and right. Money is a factor for a content life, but it is a just factor, nothing more. Do you know the reason why people want money? It's not intended for themselves but rather for the people they love. in almost every person I met who desperately wanted money weren't doing for themselves but rather for someone else. whether it was for family, friends or significant other, I've never met a person who just simply wanted more and got it.

I guess I'm sort of example who strives for financial gain for the gain of others, there a lot of relatives in my family in the Philippines living in borderline poverty, I'm doing what it takes for them not to suffer, money to me doesn't bring happiness, it was them, and it always will be.

[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

Meh, too many variables.

Right now I make about 14k a year after taxes. Its enough to pay rent and go drinking with friends a few times a month. I have a fun job, good friends, and I am the happiest I've ever been...yet I am also at my least financially stable. If I am careful, I might have an extra 60 dollars a month to throw into my savings.

Compared with my youth, and my college career where my parents supported my housing and bills sitution, I am poor but I am happy.

So, its varies.

Its funny, though, because I was talking to my parents about how little I make for being a college grad and my dad was like "dont worry, once you get a job you get with your degree and you start making real money, going from 14k a year to 40k a year will make it seem like its raining money."

Thats was very comforting.

-starman-

the thing i find the most interesting is everyone's definition of wealth and comfort.

i make $25,000 per year, and with my fiance living with me, our household income is nearly $50,000, but it still feels like we don't have enough money. it could be because we are paying back a lot in student loans, but we still manage to save at least $400 or $500 every month without really sacrificing anything. We live on a budget, but it's ample enough.

Then I'm reminded of what it was like when I was working 60 hours a week and barely making enough to get by.

Wealth isn't happiness. But having enough sure does reduce stress. (Being able to budget $100 a month for video games is nice, too!)

thats the same situation I am hoping to be in within a few years. And ya, im working 60 hours a week lol.

Minus the fiance. No offense I just dont plan on being married until Im in my 30s

Material items don't make people happy. If I said "If I had an ipod, I would be happy". I buy an ipod, but this ipod would not satisfy, I would want a better ipod, with more memory. I would continue to desire a better ipod. Because of this, I would never be truly happy.

Of course, it works on a much larger scale.

harashawn

I would be happy with the ipod. It would satisfy me.

Mo' money = mo' problems.

Rest in peace B.I.G.

Money is like everything else in life: subject to the economic notion of diminishing marginal utility. If a person has no money, and then gets a job, thus aquiring money, that extra money will vastly improve the person's life. If the person then gets a better job, thus getting more money, that will probably improve the person's life further, but not to the same extent as the first injection of money. As the person begins to earn more and more money, however, the gains in happiness and satisfaction will go towards zero, and the increased downsides that come with it will probably start to outweigh the positive gains.

People who say that money doesn't matter, full stop, are basically kidding themselves, but people who say that money is the be all and end all and that more is always better are equally kidding themselves.

Money doesn't buy happiness.

But money gives you a chance to enjoy life, and travel, and meet new people.

Also so you can support your kids and have financial freedom.

For all of you who said money plays a large roll in happiness you are wrong. Not only are you being influenced by your culture to believe you're right, but you' don't have the information available to make a valid conclusion on the topic.

Link: Read this: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1721954,00.html

also feel free to do your own research on the topic. Genetics plays the largest roll in ones ability to experience happiness in life.

Money is just one factor of many factors that actually contributes to happiness. If our culture valued goats as a source of economic status then owning GOATS would make us happy. Or at least we'd think it would, because were conditioned to believe that based on our culture.

And I really pity all the shallow people in this thread that believe money is the source of their happiness. I guess some people just won't ever get it. It's even worst that you suggest that people who dont' believe that.. are some how beneath you. That's a typical cultural conditioning practice.. you're trained to target, and to chastise anyone that does not conform to social/cultural norms. I get that. It's how the human species works.

Just because you believe I cannot be happy without having money, doesn't make it true. And I find that absurd that anyone would believe that.

I think that money can buy happiness and I'm poor. I know that if I was wealthy and financially secure I would have less to worry about and be happy that I more money to devote to the things I enjoy. I would say though that there are things that money can't buy, like love.

Love and lust are often confused. Like in the TC's example, two men that are of the same comparable looks, yet one is a bartender and the other is a lawyer. The lawyer makes more money than the bartender, but what is not being factored in is personality. I think going for someone because they have money isn't love, but lust.

Just because a person looks good and has a lot of money, doesn't mean he has a better personality. The wealth could have turned the lawyer into someone who takes things for granted, someone who is completely self-absorbed and doesn't care to much for the well being of others. Also, just because someone is rich, doesn't mean they aren't cheap.

I know a couple millionaires in my area and they dress and live like any other poor to middle class person. Even Warren Buffet, who I think is the richest man in the world, lives like someone in the upper-middle class, not like someone that lives in the upper-upper class. So I guess it just depends.

Material items don't make people happy. If I said "If I had an ipod, I would be happy". I buy an ipod, but this ipod would not satisfy, I would want a better ipod, with more memory. I would continue to desire a better ipod. Because of this, I would never be truly happy.

Of course, it works on a much larger scale.

harashawn

That reasoning is BS, and you know it. Money does bring happiness, and its not because you have money that you will always buy the new thing out that got a little more memory, a little more etc. IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE, basically, you are saying people with money lack judgment, thats what you are saying. You know, people with money aren't stupid enough to buy the newest model of something at full price because it got a little more memory, etc.

[QUOTE="canary7"]Money can't buy me love! :(JangoWuzHere

yes it can.

ya Money countols everything ya know:)

But that's not love since she will marry me for my money and will compromise on physical satisfaction.I will still not be able to "buy" the satisfaction of giving someone pure physical pleasure.I will have to deal with insecurity from hot guys as I would know that she can attract hot guys.She may even secretly cheat on me.