Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys stability, the foundation of happiness.
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Boomers need to take a look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Stability is the most important thing it provides. After that, it provides even more opportunities for happiness.
You can buy better food. You can pay someone to do your chores gaining back time to rest and have a hobby. You can afford better than the most basic healthcare in the US. You can support causes you really believe in. You can get therapy. You can take a trip. Those things won't make you happy, but they can contribute to happiness.
This is all true. 100%
I just think some might be over looking the virtue of 'money can't buy happiness.' For example, and this is just one example, if we were to scale back some of our consumer habits it might go a short way in helping the environment.
Also it's important to not put a price tag on happiness because even when you're at the very end of your rope it's still possible to enjoy a laugh. That's just how some of us cope.
Money can buy happiness. Can buy stability. Can buy relief and downtime. It's just not the only way to be happy.
Edit: money can also buy some high grade smack that will put to shame the best orgasm you've ever had. Jus sayin.
Money can't buy happiness, but the absence of money guarantees misery, do the math...
It's also completely untrue. Money does buy happiness, but only up to a certain point depending on the cost of living where you are.
Some problems can be fixed by throwing money at them. Some can’t. Is being able to make a sizable percentage of your problems disappear happiness? No, but it’s a good effin’ start!
Yeah, as another person said, you can't buy happiness directly, but you sure can buy things that facilitate it!
Literally the only problems I have are because I don't make enough money. If I made 20K more a year (which would take me from lower class to staunchly middle class) I could pay off my existing debts, get a mortgage and buy a house, go to grad school, and start saving for retirement. I wouldn't be riddled with financial anxiety skipping meals and letting my health deteriorate because it's easier to not miss work
Boomers: Have you tried pulling yourself up by your bootstraps?
I like to say "if money can't buy happiness then what's the fucking point of it?"
To manipulate and/or control us poors.
Aren't we all poor in our own way?
Maybe the real poverty is the lack of emotional intelligence which kept us crippled along the way
Bruh, I felt that one
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski. And you never see a sad person riding a jet ski.
- Bill Hicks
“Money can’t buy happiness…..also fuck the poor and worship the rich” - Boomer generation
That's because they know if you're rich you get to buy your own virtues and make the rules as you go.
more money doesn't buy more happiness.
The caveat being your needs must already be met.
I just want to be closer to what my dad had: one income, enough money to provide for a full family of 4, a house that would actually fit 6 people if needed, enough food and desert every single day, a car and he was considered fairly poor at the time.
We have 2 fulltime incomes, an appartment that's literally too small for us (at our worst we actually lived in a 16m2 room as both our incomes didn't stretch far enough to move to a bigger place), no car (just to point out also no cable or whatever streaming service besides Netflix, no ordering food ever, no going out for coffee or food etc etc), the amount of food we can afford is rarely enough.
All i want is a house that fits us, affordable food and the financial clearence to get a small car when we feel we benefit from one.
We'll soon have enough desert for the entire population.
Whether you broke or rich, you gotta get this
Having money's not everything, not having it is.
It's true that money doesn't buy happiness, it only buys a certain piece of mind, which goes a long way to achieving happiness.
But there are a ton of wealthy people out there that aren't happy.
What about being dirt poor? Does that make you happy?
What a stupid fucking quote.
buy less avacados /s
I find the avocado on toast boomer trope hilarious.
My grandfather owns an avocado orchard and when I was a kid he would send a giant box of them down to us every so often. As a result I got horribly sick of them and the only reason I would eat one now would be if I had no other options.
We still get them, my partner eats a couple and we give the rest away.
If you can't afford spaghetti, just eat lasagna.
Bro how come you can't even buy spaghetti
No money =(
You don't have a dollar and half? How you pay for anything?
Blood.