Money=Happiness

Money, in and of itself, does not bring happiness. However, I believe that happiness without money is difficult. Sure, you will hear the argument that friends and family are all you need. But without money, in this day and age, you can't care for your family. How happy will you be when you can't pay to keep your family healthy. Your children are starving to death. You spouse is sick and you can't afford care. You lose your house, your car, everything for lack of money. You now have to watch your family suffer because you have no money. That would make me quite unhappy.

I know right now, the thing that I want more than anything for my own happiness requires money. I'm in the proccess of trying to move to be near someone I love very much, and in order to do that, I need money. Quite a bit of it in fact. So the end result isn't neccessarily money making me happy. It's more what I can achieve with that money that I can't achieve without it.

So directly, money does not make you happy, but I think you need it to be happy.

 

In a world without money, it's possible to be happy. Thus money does not 'equal' happiness...

But, given that we do live in a society with money, you probably wouldn't be very happy if you were always strapped for cash.

However, if I could choose being 'well off' enough to live comfortably (ie. bills paid, food in my mouth, etc. with a little extra spending money), I would pick that over being stinking rich. Something about being that wealthy, owning a mansion etc. seems a bit impersonal to me...kind of cold.

 

Hey, if I were a millionare, I'd be pretty happy. But not if I were just using it for myself. I would be a charitable as I could. Even now, when I get money, I don't mind buying things for my friend or family. I love to share the love man.

Truly, money isn't happiness. Its how you use the money that makes you happy.

 

I can honestly say that if I was rich, I'd be happy. As long as I wasn't being stalked by paparazzi, I can honestly say that, to me, money can buy my happiness.

 

They aren't because they're constantly stalked.

But, people such as Bill Gates are EXTREMELY rich, but nobody gives a rats ass about them because they aren't in a movie.

 

In some odd, twisted way, money does bring happiness. It is natural to desire "things," and because of that, we are happy when we can get money and thus get "things."

If things were free and money wasn't a factor, then no it would not bring happiness. It is ONLY bringing happiness when it exists. Money is a systematic way to bring happiness for short periods of times, to make people happy. You don't NEED it, but the common view point is it is needed( manditorily )to be a sufficient, living human being.

I don't personally think money brings happiness *entirely*. I hardly use it and am just fine being able to talk to my friends and such. I don't get "things" often( I say that because "things," like said about, bring happiness )very often. In fact, I haven't gotten a new game since Christmas( which I didn't ask for ).


In fact being rich is probably what brings the most depression. Look at celebrities, for example. Lindsay Lohan is very upset with her life, can't you tell?

 

True, you didn't buy her (though that is actually possible through mailorder ).

But tell me this. Say you and your girlfriend stay together. Get married. Have kids. And now you have no money. They're going hungry. They're sick and you can't afford to take care of them. You now have to to watch the people you love suffer because you have no money.

Not a happy scenario is it? Sure. If there was no money, than money would not bring happiness. This is true. However, in our society, money is required for just about everything. And thus that point is moot. In order to survive and be "happy" in todays world, you need money. I'm not saying that you have ot be rich to be happy. Far from it. But you have to at least have enough to be able to obtain the things you need to take care of yourself and your family. Or you won't be happy. There may be the occassional exception to the rule, but for the majority, this holds true.

 

Again. I did say that there was always an exception to the rule. And I never said that money, on it's own, would bring happiness. I agree with you on the subject of the rich and famous. I personally don't want to be a multi-billionare or anything of the sort. I simply want enough to be able to provide the neccessities for my family (whenever I get one that is) and perhaps buy the odd luxury here or there.

And I"d like to reiterate that fact that yes, before money entered our culture, people survived without it. That does not change the fact that our society has money now, and it is required for just about everything.

Basically, my point is, that now, money itself does not make you happy. If all you have is money, and none of the other things in life, that's not happiness. It's what money can do to make sure the ones you love are taken care of. Without that, you won't be happy.

I'd also like to point out that in certain cases, money is required to live at all. I am a type I diabetic. I require insulin. Something an old world system wouldn't have been able to give me. If I lived back in those days, I would have died at the age of 18. In order to keep on living, I need to make money to buy insulin. If I stop making money in the future, can't buy insulin, and die of hyperglicemia and diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), that's a pretty big blow to my family. Especially my wife and kids if I'm married.

There are certain pathways that I don't think can be turned back. This is one of them. If the introduction of money as a requirement for a happy life is the cost of my actually being able to live it, I accept that. I don't think money buys happiness. But I think the lack of it entirely results in unhappiness.

And I'm not sure where I struck a nerve. I didn't intend to. Unless you have some problem with my mail order bride comment, I'm confused.

 

We actually had that solution for the Perfect World. You know what it was called? Communism.

Everybody works, and everybody stays equal. Unfortunately, the leaders of Communist societies tend to become corrupt.

 

And that's the problem. Communism, in theory, is a beautiful thing. But communism in practice is not very much like the original idea at all. To begin with, if everyone is equal, there are no leaders. And people are greedy. Some of us more than others, but we're all guilty of it to some degree. And we tend to want more than we have. Andin case of these leaders, they're in a position to do it, and it pretty much just turns into a dictatorship. The leaders end up with everything. The people at the bottom end up with very little. And all in all, it turns into a very corrupt system where it, theoretically, should be a perfect society.

 

don't ask why... but when i read the title... i ROFL'ed... it wasn't becuase i thought it wasn't true... it was just funny to me, anyway...


money deffinently doesn't equal happiness. you can have (or buy) anything you want with money... but you can't buy everything. like (for example) you can't buy love. you can't buy it becuase it isn't a object... it isn't there to be bought. so, basically you can buy objects... but you can't buy emotions like love, comfert, and many other things...

so, no, money doesn't buy happiness nor can you be completely happy with money

 

There's one other obstacle for Communism to overcome:

Studies have been performed that have shown that people work less hard when they're in a group. (Unless of course, they feel their group is incompetent)

Their paradigm was simple: Trick factory-workers into thinking they're in a group when they weren't. Blindfold them, and have a tape-recorder play sounds of other workers. Their productivity decreased drastically...it's just something internal to peoples' brain, they take it easy when they feel like they can.

If we were to have a world with communism...then everyone would have to try their hardest and work their hardest (Otherwise it's unfair: "Why does that lazy bum next door make the same money I do? All he does it sit around all day!"). In light of this, Communism can't work even in lieu of having a perfect leader.