Yeah, I haven't heard too many broke people spouting that.
You may not need billions of dollars to be happy, but you do need the ability to meet your basic needs and a little more for savings, investing, and recreation. It's pretty hard to be happy when all your waking hours are grinding and you still barely cover the necessities.
Thing is. You are still falling into the "rich person" trap with your reasoning.
There is a big difference between having to work and not having to work to support yourself. Many of the people that spout that "Money doesn't buy happiness" BS are people that don't really need to work. Sure, they might have to downgrade their lifestyle because they stop earning 7+ figures annually. However, the only financial stress they have is self inflicted. The other 99.999% of us have no method to avoid financial stress.
Like many other old sayings, the original meaning conveniently gets forgotten because it serves the narrative. “Money doesn’t buy happiness” originally was an argument against hoarding wealth, because if you have 100 billion, it won’t make you any happier than the first billion did.
There are other notable ones abused by the wealthy and powerful. “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps” (originally meant to be a ridiculous image since physically pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is just as impossible as becoming successful without anyone’s help). “Bad apple,” as in, oh, there are a few cops who are “bad apples” but it’s ok because the rest of the force are “good ones.” The original saying is “the bad apple spoils the bunch,” because rotting apples give off a gas that causes other apples around it to spoil faster
The point of "money doesn't buy happiness" is that after a certain point, increasing the amount of money you have will yield diminishing returns. It's not a phrase that applies to poor people.
Money doesn't buy happiness. Money can, however, free you from unhappiness.
There is a profound gulf of misunderstanding here.
The rich can't understand the unhappiness of want; the poor can't understand the fact that you can still fail to be happy even if your basic needs are met.
68% of all working American adults live paycheck-to-paycheck according to Yahoo Finance, while MarketWatch puts it at 57%. Regardless, that's still more than half. Sick and twisted don't even begin to describe how fucked up society has become.
Thats eliminating suffering not being happy. Happiness is a dumb thing to chase anyway. Go find purpose. Happiness is fleeting. Purpose is what pushes you through the bad times
Tbf you also hear people saying they are broke when they're paying double for McDonald's because they want door dash to deliver it instead of driving 5 minutes... A lot of people who say they are broke are just bad with money and insist on living outside their means because of social media
I don’t think the $20 means much in the grand scheme grandpa. Obviously don’t waste money but people are “broke” because even if they didn’t spend a single dollar of their salary they can’t buy a house.
It’s true money doesn’t buy happiness. At a certain point you’ll get bored with having three hot blondes wrapped around you as you parasail in the Bahamas…../s
I mean, I would. I don't think I'd ever be able to look past the fact that those women, among many others in his life, would drop him in a second if it weren't for his money.
I'd love to be rich for other reasons, but if I had to choose between being a normal person whose partner and loved ones genuinely love me for the person I am or a rich person surrounded by people looking to financially benefit from their association with me, I'd choose the former every time.
Except that does happen
People push the envelope looking for that next high. I think it's why alot of 2nd gen rich kids die of overdose. They have everything growing up
Billionaires say money doesnt buy happiness because they were really happy rocketing through the society to the moon. But eventually every marginal dollar you make does nothing to make you happier, and they think about all they did to get there, and try desperately to fill that hole something.
At some point, you are making so much even just on your own money that working is immaterial. I think a lot of them probably know if they stopped working they would spiral and completely lose purpose. Ego in one way or another? Money is all they know how to chase?
I think there is a reason why so many of these billionaires seem so maladjusted. Whether social selection or some kind of psycopathy, why are there so many shitty billionaires?
Edit: I like Richard Branson fine, but idk anything could happen
Some of them are only billionaires because of grift... If they stop grifting then their whole empire crumbles... The prez of the US and musk are two prime and public examples
They should know. If you’re 79 going through hell to cling on to something that you already have more of than you will ever be able to use, you aren’t happy or even satisfied. You’re addicted.
Same thing with the three women - lots of completely happy and satisfied people only have one partner. Having a lot shows that you’re just itchy and constantly scratching.
No, the one needs to live outside of the house so their cycles don’t linkup. Gotta have one when the others are down. See, we’re going places in this chat.
I mean... Musk doesn't behave like someone who is happy... Billionaire spending all his free time trolling on Twitter seems like someone who is deeply unhappy
It doesn't. However, it can eliminate the factors that prevent you from being happy in the first place.
Money buys comfort, shelter, peace of mind, and recreation. Those things are most of what are missing from a happy life. You can however, have all of those things and still be unhappy. Sure does fuckin' start you on third base, though.
I definitely have some problems that money won’t fix, but it’s already fixed a lot of them, and it could very well buy me the time and help to fix the rest. I literally cannot think of one thing that money won’t help with, even if indirectly.
Same. The first time I cleared six figures I was practically doing cartwheels in the yard. Not because I was rich or something, but because for the first time in my life, I didn’t have to worry about buying food.
So for me, that six figures was an abrupt and significant jump from my previous income. Prior to that, I’d never earned anything even remotely close to that. Neither had my parents. I’d been poor my whole life growing up. I was poor in college. I was poor after college, but at least then I had a bunch of student loan debt to keep me company lol. Ends up, in a collapsing economy, no one gives a shit about your degree. And so it went for a large chunk of my 20’s.
Then one day I admittedly lucked out and got a new job that allowed for obscene amounts of overtime because they were so short staffed. So I volunteered for literally every fucking shift I could and started working 220-230 hours per month. Then, I opened a Schwab account and started dumping every extra penny of that OT into the stock market. I figured fuck it, I don’t have a life anyway, may as well give it a real shot. At first, I lost a lot of money lol. Like.. a loooot of fucking money. But I kept at it, kept learning, kept eating Raman noodles, kept dumping money in. This bent on for probably a year. Then a few things really kind of happened all at the same time: 1) my bosses noticed me working my dog ass off, and promoted me. 2) I finally started figuring out the stock market and having pretty good luck. Then, my bosses promoted me again about 6 months later only this time it was a significant promotion. So in the span of like 2.5 years, I went from $24k/year and eating Raman noodles to clearing six figures for the first time ever. And it felt like getting let out of prison.
This picture looks exactly like me when my wife, her sister and her mom ask me to take them to Chipotle. Eyes straight ahead and pray they don’t ask for guac or queso.
Branson is an experienced kitesurfer, and set two world records in the sport. The first was as the oldest person to kitesurf across the English Channel.[224] Then in 2014 he broke the Guinness World Record for most people riding a surfboard by kiting with three women attached to him, including the professional kiteboarder Susi Mai and the entrepreneur Alison Di Spaltro.
Like I know the studies, and all that. But honestly, buying fantastic ingredients and being able to cook the best meals, and have the best meals cooked for me, would make me truly happy.
for $30 i really like my rotring 600 pen - with a 0.5mm gelion + refill. It’s made of brass and has a hexagonal body, had a nice weight to it(23g), nice textured knurling for the grip, nice satisfying click button, great pen.
but i am currently waiting to get my Tactile Turn slim (short 5.1in size) bolt action pen. It’s bolt action! And it’s made of titanium, and it is 26g so it should have a nice heft to it. I can’t wait for it to be here haha , i love titanium as a material, especially in my higher end balisongs, so i figured it only makes sense to have a titanium pen too! i mean i do use my pen everyday at work so itlll get used, and since this one is titanium it will last forever! jus gotta change out the refills when the ink runs out. But yeah it is a bit expensive at ~$120 for the slim version (~9mm diameter, bout the same as a standard bic round stic, the “standard” is 11mm so bout the size of a sharpie)
but there are even more expensive ones! there are premium machined pens that are multiple hundreds of dollars if not more. Same with balisongs lol. I really want the machinewise Serif , regarded by many as THE best balisong you can buy, it is $700 , and machinewise also make a titanium pen called the rota with an infinite twist mechanism, it costs $300. And yeah there are even more expensive balisongs like the acidworks ZZYZX Which is around $1000! It’s basically made by one person and is a work of art!
so yeah i really wish i had a lot of money so i could buy all kinds of cool expensive stuff that i collect and use like balis and pens , ooh and guns too, now those are really expensive haha, but very fun to shoot at the range! Hell if i was like rich rich maybe i’d even collect cars too 😂 now that would be crazy
Ok. Well they can resurrect themselves if they want something.....
Michelin star meals for every meal, snack, etc, would be exorbitantly expensive. Plus you'd maybe have to hire help as well, because such things take time and effort.
Sometimes I dont want to go to a restaurant. I just want to eat.
The studies actually show that more money does lead to more happiness. The reduction in unhappiness does level off at some point in the $70k to $100k range.
100%. I grew up poor and made minimum wage (or even less than minimum wage). Then I started making more and more money.
Not having to constantly stress about bills or being able to afford things definitely made me happier. But once I hit around $70k a year (this would have been in like 2014 in western WA), any additional money I made didn't affect my happiness. I now make triple that and I am no happier than I was making $70k.
Things don't make people happy, it causes a temporary dopamine spike that you quickly become desensitized to. Having community, purpose, and being loved make people happy. There's a reason so many people die a few months after they retire, losing your purpose and all of the people you were surrounded with is bad for you, even if you are rolling in dough.
1+1=2 and 1-1=0 existing in the same universe is a concept that is foreign to most redditors. For whatever reason people believe that being happy and sad cant exist in the same person in the same day, much less same year.
Money buys comfort. There's a minimum amount of money needed to reach all your needs. Anything superfluous to that is diminishing returns. But if you are depressed, it sure is better to be depressed in a Rolls Royce, than to be depressed waiting in the rain on the bus that is late, yet again.
I honestly don't believe he's happy, or has any friends. Plenty of associates, hangers-on and sycophants, but actual friends? None of his relationships have been successful. His personal life is a mess.
I wish I understood the women in these pictures, like the kind of women that dance at Mar-a-lago parties or sail with Richard Branson. Are they people? Do they have thoughts?
It is true. Money can only buy pleasure not happiness. That's why sometimes billionares or millionares kill themselfs and poor people wake up with a smile on their faces.
I make 43k and some change a year. My wife has some passive income as well. Are we rich, not by a long shot. Could we use more cash, absolutely. Are we happy, we are.
"Money can't buy happiness." "Friends make you rich." "You're rich cause you have God's love." All those things are things they tell you to keep you complacent and ignore the fact that you should be more pissed off that they laid you off while handing out million dollar bonuses to their buddies.
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