I hear people talk about how they were lied to or disappointed by sage wisdom or old institutions- but this is a perfect example of where no one lied, YOU misunderstood. Money doesn’t buy happiness. Having more money won’t make you proportionally more happy, and studies show that the joy from making more quickly fades as we grow accustomed to the lifestyle that affords and then want more money again. As this states- money CAN buy some stability, it can buy security. Those things CAN give you the freedom to pursue things that are risky, or to be able to do things you love more often. Not having to worry as much about money means less stress and less financial unhappiness. No one ever said money couldn’t pay bills- they said it doesn’t buy happiness. It’s still a resource like any other and if you have enough and use it well a resource can help you find your happiness and keep it.
I agree guest. I jumped in to say that "money doesn't buy happiness" is true, and Smiggles even agrees in his rant. What he's trying to say is that "it's hard to be happy without money". Those two quotes can both logically be true at the same time.
True and true. I remembered reading about this a while ago. There’s actually research out there that suggests that after ~US$75,000/year, a single person has less additional happiness (or less sorrow) from each incremental dollar earned and that after ~US$200,000/year, there’s not much of a ‘happiness boost’ the more money you make. Obviously, this depends on how expensive it is where you live and whether you base your self-worth on what your buddies make. But it ‘seems’ like there’re some numbers where maybe money does buy happiness. Here’s one of a few articles about it: https://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/14/money-can-buy-happiness-but-only-to-a-point.html
Here's some advice that i think everyone needs to spend a lot of time thinking about: Happiness comes from Gratitude, unhappiness comes from entitlement.
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Very few people effortlessly live their lives full of gratitude. For most of us it takes a lot of work to continually pull ourselves away from entitlement's magnetic draw. But the more we work on it, the easier it becomes to resist.
Unhappiness has nothing to do with entitlement. Just because someone's stressed it doesn't mean they're wrong for feeling stressed. In my old job I would work 12 hours a day, didn't receive overtime and didn't receive sick leave or holiday pay. I was constantly stressed that I wasn't accomplishing enough and that ended up following me into my regular social life. Sometimes you're unhappy because you literally have no control over your own well being
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Very few people effortlessly live their lives full of gratitude. For most of us it takes a lot of work to continually pull ourselves away from entitlement's magnetic draw. But the more we work on it, the easier it becomes to resist.