How much does happiness cost?

Question

Can I buy it at the supermarket in a tin? Does it have a monetary value if I cannot buy it?

What is the time value of happiness?

Answer 1

Happiness is a gift,it goes as it comes.Cannot be bought or caught.

Answer 2

$5

Answer 3

You have received a number of joke answers, so here is a serious one.

An increasing number of economists, notably Professor Layard at London School of Economics, are asking serious questions about the relationship between happiness and money. You will find an overview of some of this work in the Christmas 2006 issue of the leading financial periodical "The Economist".

It would be nice to think that "money can't buy you love", but there are indications that richer people tend to be happier, with consequences such as that they live longer. It is becoming increasingly apparent, however, that, once people have basic necessities such as food and a roof over their head, it is not absolute wealth that matters as much as comparative wealth. In other words, it make you happy to be at the top of the economic tree. The greatly increased inequalities in wealth in developed countries such as the UK in recent years help explain why many people these days are unhappy.

Early utiliarian economists, such as Mill and Bentham, equated money with happiness on the grounds that people would buy what makes them happy. Millions of past and present undergraduate students in philosophy, politics and economics have had to write essays on the failings of Mill and Bentham's ideas!

Failure of economics to address adequately the relationship between money and happiness, which in part has resulted from a lack of dialogue between economists and psychologists and consequent use by economists of indefensible assumptions about the rationality of human behaviour, has major practical consequences reducing the quality of life for most people today.

Answer 4

The cost and value is totally subjective.

I've felt happy walking deep in a snow covered forest in the north US where it has been -12. I've felt happy on a beach in the Maldives (mid Indian Ocean). Happy sitting in front of a PC in the middle of the night with the rain pouring outside and a fire burning in the hearth.

I've felt 'Happy' from a (none sexual) massage where I've been deeply relaxed and listening to my breathing which sounded like waves breaking on a beach - where the massage came from a loving partner who was just happy to see the end result.

I've felt happy and connected with someone from an intimate conversation over coffees on a balcony late in the night over looking the sea, and where we have retired to bed just as the horizon begins to lighten.

None of that can you buy off of a supermarket shelf in a tin.

Sash.

Answer 5

I don't know if any of the given answers so far strike your question. To me this would be in Philosophy category and where an answer like "it cost critical thinking in order to achieve happiness"

Hope this is the ideology u r looking for.

Answer 6

Well, you can't buy it, but you can rent it! I rented it now and then. You can usually find happiness at game stores, or movie rental stores. Depending on what you're into you can buy happiness at those kinds of stores, as there are many varieties of happiness. I prefer strawberry flavoured happiness myself.

Answer 7

happiness costs about $14.99.buy something for someone else special and a watering can of love pours down on you

Answer 8

According to commercials for Hershey's bars, about a dollar.

Answer 9

It could cost you everything just to find out you put to high a price on it.

Answer 10

it costs nothing but its the most expensive thing to buy