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"Money can't buy happiness" (media.mas.to)
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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Read in semi-serious voice:

"Money can't buy happiness" is capitalist propaganda. Money can and does buy happiness but this line is supposed to make the rubes less jealous of their exploiters as to minimize the rube-pitchfork association.