Money does buy happiness

In this money, money and money world.
Anyone who says otherwise is an idiot.

Just imagine if you won the lottery,

No more work
You can do what you like and when you like
Be what you want
Never have to please anyone
Never have to be nice to no one

imagine

 

It depends on yur definition happiness.

 

Money can take away some of the basic insecurities in life, ie shelter, food, warmth.

For some, it leads to happiness. But in and of itself? Total happiness just because you're rich? Naah, it has to be transmuted in some way, put into a context, give you opportunities.

 

To me, money can buy you peace of mind, but not happiness. Happiness comes from inside of you.

 

pleasing ppl & being nice makes me happy
always havin to lock my door would suck..
i couldnt give it away fast enough if i won the lottery
but i guess just givin away a couple hundred mil would be fun for a min

although a bonfire would be better

 

i would still work if i won the lottery - i'd use the money to get into something that i enjoy doing instead of just getting any old job i'd be miserable at. use the money to advance my education, attend seminars/work shops that would help further my career.

that money would make things easier, sure, but i'm happy now. i don't need money to be happy.

 

I remember my social psychology professor claimed there was a study done in which around 70% of people who had won the lottery stated that they were mentally happier before they had won it.

 

everyones a portion of sumthing. money allows u access to stuff. but imbalances folk. grandparants billionaires parents millionares. adopted. they had needs. ide stare attem. cold kid. im warmer now. sum distrust we had in common. extremes. loss. when i drink with rich kids ,everyones a kid. i lettem spend. at sum point you givem a look. cool wanna go do stuff now? ok put away yer wallet.now we thourully messed. yall know how to p[lay an instrument? dancers painters writers acters all that.takem to squat tour.they get hungry i get food no money. all things sept hard drugs. n comforts.naw kid this yer holiday. day labor k? panhandle k? this is fun!wonder why i abducted so many rich kids. 2 years abducted by rich cunts, they are also useless. sincerity.

 

Hope you have your health too.

 

What definition does not include money?

 

money buys things. three kinds of things:

1-things you can make and do things with.
2-things to try and impress someone else with
3-things you would get into trouble to not have

number three isn't a choice of course but number one is the only one that's worth a dam. number 2 is pure crap and the reason for so much that is going to hell in a hand basket right now.

what buys happiness is creating and exploring. and happiness isn't bought exactly either. it exists, comes into being, only as a byproduct of being in the proccess of doing what you enjoy doing, and/or at least, being at peace with your conscounse and your self.

this doesn't exactly make money evil as such or anything like that, but trying to make everything have to begin and end with little green pieces of paper for the sake of an illusion of gratification, that of trying to impress each other, HAS devistated and continues to destroy much that would bring true gratification to create and explore.

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Money can't buy family or love or friends. Physical items do not determine happiness for me

 

if you think money is going to buy you happiness, you're doomed to misery. if, however, money is just one part of your system, a cog in the machine instead of the machine itself, you'll probably be fine. but many people with money are miserable, too. just look how much they end up spending on therapists and dsitractions. an unfulfilled life is an unfulfilled life, no matter how much money you do or don't have.

 

AreYouExperienced,

That was before the concept of receiving a Lump Sum.

Before then many lottery winners receiving yearly installments would find themselves deep in debt by spending well over their means.

They'd win a million dollars but instead of receiving a million, they'd receive 50 thousand dollars a year for 20 years.


Hotwater

 

Money changes people... it consumes them spiritually.

Money is like an addictive drug in the sense that a small measure of success seems to create an obsession for more. So many times I've seen people who appear to have "it all" by most standards but have no time to enjoy what they've amassed because they are either working crazy hours or are bound by a schedule to fill roles to establish or maintain a level of status they either set for themselves or they imagine others expect of them.

Something I've seen in myself- it's not having- it's getting. There is no lasting reward in possession. The mental charge comes from the conquest. I suspect I'm not at all alone in this. Having money seems only to compel one to strive for more- and in many cases this is all-consuming.

No, money doesn't buy happiness at all. At most it rents the illusion. In reality, money is an incredible prison and the all-consuming obsession for more perpetuates profound unhappiness and emptiness. It's a big running joke on those who obsess on getting more because when they die they leave it all behind.

 

George Carlin does a great routine about stuff...Possesions can own you if you aren't careful.

 

George Carlin is a genius... and most people are not careful; their possessions do own them.

 

i have 10 dollars and thirty cents to my name ....so i guess i could realize theres a lot money could get me .......whos to say what id do with it .......read 'thoughts on the moscow census of 1880 ' by tolstoy ......he gave money to the wretched and they almost to a one destroyed themselves .....

 

Apparently when people win the lottery, for some, their spending goes out of control and they end up poorer than they were before winning or they end up bankrupt.

 

You are correct. Money is the root of all evil when your poor...