does money buy happiness?

Question

i've been fortunate enough to always get whatever i want.....spoiled...yes...... dont get me wrong.....its nice, but i could have all the material things in the world, and not be content. Makes me wonder how i'd feel without the luxuries i've had. ahh.

Answer 1

Depends. What do you consider happiness? Could you buy it with money? Sometimes it only provides the things that can be easily bought, but with those things out of the way, it's logical to assume that it would be easier to acquire those other aspects of happiness now that your focus is less spread out. Those are just my thoughts though... I haven't experienced big money yet so I can't say for sure.

Answer 2

Oh man.. Ok, here's the deal. Money helps to an extent that it will alleviate your suffering. i.e. If you don't have enough money that you can pay rent, eat decent food (not canned beans all the time), and put clothes on your back, then yes, increasing your money will increase your happiness (because your life is misery and you feel like a failure).

Once you get past that initial point, money doesn't buy you much more happiness. What it does do is give you options. If you don't have much extra cash lying around but you want to go ski in colorado, you can always get a job as a lift operator and ski for free. But if you have the cash, you don't have to quit your job and move to colorado to ski, you can simply plunk down the 2 grand and go for a week or two.

So the answer to your question is yes, but only to a point. After that point, additional money buys you options and peace of mind (you won't be scared of not having enough money to survive). Unfortunately, a lot of people don't realize that this point exists, and they continue their quest for ever higher mountains of weath without realizing it's not really increasing their happiness at all.

Answer 3

First off, define happiness. Happiness can be a smile from your daughter's face when you buy her a new cellphone. Happiness can be a summer vacation on the beach for my husband. Happiness can be seeing other people being happy with some material thing you just gave them. Happiness can come in small packages.

If you are thirsty, a can of cold soda can bring you instant gratification and you can smile and be happy for a while. If I feel hot, I turn on the airconditioner, for which i needed money to buy and money to pay for the electricity to run it. Then when I feel comfortable, I am happy while I am comfortable.

So how much will you be willing to spend to buy a few minutes worth of happiness for your wife of girlfriend. I am not saying the happiness will last. But for a price, happiness can be granted at a certain degree.

So money does buy happiness, albeit happiness isn't perpetual, you can buy it for a price.

Answer 4

Money, when properly earned, reflects the highest and greatest from within us: it's one physical manifestationof something beautiful in us, the desire to create. That links us to our Creator, and it's a wonderful thing.

When we obsess over getting money, and not on our personal contribution that legitimately earns it, we become looters. That's the corrupt influence of money.

Take some time and get to know Ayn Rand and her philosophy: Objectivism. She's written some incredible books (Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, among others). She's influenced you more than you know. Did you know, for example, that Alan Greenspan was a devoted friend in her Collective (a group of people intent on living to the highest good imaginable)?

Good luck with this

Answer 5

Money DOES buy happiness regardless if people want to believe it or not. Anyone who tries to tell you different is lying to you and themselves. If you think I'm lying, ask a "broke/financially strapped" person if they're truly happy. If they give you an honest answer, they'll tell you how miserable they are. Without money comes stress of bill collectors, daily survival, and often marital problems.

If you ask me they should change the wording used during weddings to say "...til DEBT do you part." Death has nothing to do with it...death will be the result of your marriage the minute finanal problems enter your lives.

The only people who say money can't buy happiness are those who don't have any. "Money doesn't/can't buy happiness" is just a phrase that "broke people" spend way too much time trying to convince themselves of.

Answer 6

Money only buys temporary gratification that's false and misleading. It could be considered a drug really. Eventually it takes more and more money each time to continue this happiness eventually no amount is enough and you're miserable. The only attainable and sustainable happiness is when one person does good for another person, that happiness lasts a lifetime.

Answer 7

Just look down your list of answers. Those who said no in one word or short answers, probably have money, not necessarily filthy rich, but have a good life, house, car and don't have to worry about bills. Those who sent in long answers, probably could do with some, but are unwilling to seem greedy. Personally, I am comfortable, providing I die within the next month.

Answer 8

Money is an important means for security in life. It brings in a sense of satisfaction and peace free from the fear of poverty and the privations of life. Beyond a point, too much of money, if kept for your own self, will make you go astray. Hence, excess money needs to go in for charity. Charity also, in turn , will give rise to happiness, enhancing your sense of worth.

Answer 9

yes money is nice to have. But i grew up in a home where we barely had enough food to eat, and sometimes no food at all, i learned to love just having a roof over my head. Money isnt everything, you may have all the possesion your heart desires, but you cant take all that stuff with you when your dead.

Answer 10

NO.happiness can never be purchasd as it is not a material thing and all the money in the world could never give u hapiness or tru love