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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I know a woman who had over a million $ in the bank 2 years ago and she's went through it by going on vacations, road trips, gambling, dining at expensive restaurants several times a week, shopping excessively, buying a new home & furnishing, etc...and bragging on FB like she has the perfect life. Now the money's gone and there's plans on selling the house and downgrading. Her happiness lasted as long as the money did.
SweetDreamsRubi · 31-35, F
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
She wasn't "happy" to begin with or she wouldn't have had to spend it so quickly, it was a poor substitute for getting her $h!t together, and she's affected several family members...karma is a bitch.
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TheMandalorianCandidate · 46-50, M
raouffreeman · M
raouf freeman :Of course it all depends upon which level of happiness one is speaking of when asking if money can buy happiness. On the most basic levels, money most definitiely can buy happiness. It is genuine happiness to be able to provide medical help for your children. It is quite decidedly happiness to pay rent or mortgage to have a roof over your head and your children's heads. It is indisputably happiness to buy wholesome and adequate food to serve your family and yourself and your beloved four-footed furry friends. It is most certainly happiness to have money for some form of transportation, be it public transit or private automobile, that allows the escape from walking 1 or 2 miles carrying supplies for familiy meals for a day or two. Money can and does buy happiness.
The problem is that when our happiness is met at one level, our desires and definitions of happiness continue in an accretion process, growing ever larger and more complex, and soon the capacity of money to provide is outstripped by the nature of our dreams of happiness: money can't buy happiness in the abstract but it most definitely can buy happiness in the concrete on the first several most fundamental and necessary levels, including an education and accoutraments for securing a well paying job. And it is hard if not impossible to find the love of one's life without money with which to make one's self look respectable and presentable. Money most decidedly can and does buy happiness.
The problem is that when our happiness is met at one level, our desires and definitions of happiness continue in an accretion process, growing ever larger and more complex, and soon the capacity of money to provide is outstripped by the nature of our dreams of happiness: money can't buy happiness in the abstract but it most definitely can buy happiness in the concrete on the first several most fundamental and necessary levels, including an education and accoutraments for securing a well paying job. And it is hard if not impossible to find the love of one's life without money with which to make one's self look respectable and presentable. Money most decidedly can and does buy happiness.
SweetDreamsRubi · 31-35, F
CallmeHopelessNotRomantic · 46-50, F
Waxfoot · 56-60, M
to a certain degree ,yes of course,ask this question to homeless , jobless people and see what answer you get,
raouffreeman · M
No , It makes u satisfied but not happy ;)