does money really buy happiness?

Answer 1

more happiness than shitall will buy

Answer 2

It depends on what you already have in your life, as well as what you want and expect from life. If you have a family, love, health, and all that meaningful stuff (if you are fundamentally happy), but are dirt poor, can't do anything you want, or pay for food, housing, entertainment, etc. then yes, it can make you very happy, in a superficial way. If you don't have money, but have fundamental happiness you can be greatly dragged down by the burdens of your financial limitations.

If you don't have fundamental happiness, money cannot buy it for you. If you are one of those people that doesn't need love and health to be happy, then yes, it can buy you superficial happiness, for sure. So it's a complicated thing really. For some it will buy happiness, for others it won't, and for more still it will greatly enhance their happiness or take away the burdens that were limiting the enjoyment of what they already had to begin with.

Money would definitely buy me some happiness right now.

Answer 3

Wealth is an asset but if and only if, there is wisdom and the diligence to use money wisely. Money is a good servant but a bad master. Power is nothing without control. What if a man who has tonnes of money has no control over his own mind? He is driven by his turbulent emotions, passing whimsicalities, his driving passions, his inflated self image, his unbalanced thinking, obsolete memories, his fears and hopes, his memory and imagination. If he has money and lacks wisdom, lacks clear and balanced thinking, well regulated emotions, well planned action, the money and its power can entangle him in innumerable complications and bring him untold misery. We see many examples of this kind in our daily life. Money becomes a curse rather than a blessing. Such an ignorant and unwise man might have stayed out of trouble if his pockets were empty.
Obviously, then, money is only a tool, a neutral tool, a double edged tool. Its rightful use depends on our maturity and wisdom. It can be an extremely useful servant or a foolish and merciless master. In our societies, man needs some money to buy himself food, water and shelter. This is the rightful use of money. However, money does not guarantee happiness and peace of mind. Money can buy servants but cannot buy loyal service, it can buy a lover but cannot buy love, it can buy a wife but it cannot buy her love and loyalty. Obviously, money has limitations. The human being's needs go beyond the merely physical. His mind yearns for companionship and his heart yearns for love. These do not necessarily come with money.
Further, it is clear that money has little to do with happiness. Wealth can bring happiness or misery. If a man has food to eat, clean air to breathe, water to drink, a shelter to stay, people to love and love him, why does he need money? It is the fulfillment of man's basic and natural needs, his development, his increasing self awareness and self mastery that lead him to lasting fulfillment, bliss and joy. The accumulation of money may be an accumulation of fear but is certainly not the key to happiness. Indeed, happiness does not come in a golden bowl. When the mind is free from conflict, there is happiness.

Answer 4

Money helps buy necessities , comforts and luxuries . Almost everyone slog through out their lives just to keep their body and soul together . And when you are faced with everyday hardships of life and also frequent challenges , the time goes in encountering and winning them . Whereas in if you have ample of money , you can think beyond the necessities and comforts and can do things in lives you always wanted to .
It isn't as bad as it sounds . Buy happiness for yourself with money, its no crime . Money is bad only when you buy misery for others or you self .
Like everything, money too, has two faces . Admire the beauty and save yourself from the ugly one .

Answer 5

It depends on what you use the money to buy - especially if it's something you've wanted all your life, is not exorbitant and gives you real pleasure. Everyone deserves at least one folly when it comes to money, especially if you worked hard to earn it. Cheers!

Answer 6

Absolutely Not. I have worked for people who are well off, for the past 34 years of my life. I can honestly say that they are just as miserable as the poor or less fortunate.

Answer 7

No. But it does buy time, and freedom from drudgery, which can make it easier to find happiness.

Answer 8

$ can buy house but not a home
$ can buy friends but not loyalty
$ can buy body but can't possess soul/ love/ heart
$ makes the world go round.....
$ can't buy happiness, it can give satisfaction.....

Answer 9

Yup. If we tried to live amongst the poorest....... just yes..... Not for the money, it's-self, but for the security that comes with it. Plus, those who work hard don't fight, so we'd be surrounded by those who don't fight, and that's harmony, and that's harmonious.

Answer 10

No, you keeping buying and buying useless stuff that are unfulfilling, or you just keep accumulating more and more money (greed).