my happiness is based on money. just enough to live comfortably and have enough to know the bills are paid.?

Question

how much of your happiness is dependent on money? come on be real?

Answer 1

Realistically, I require some money or means to have a roof over my head and food in my stomach. The bills are just bills. If I had enough to survive, I could live bankrupt and not feel much grief from it.

But you do touch on an important point. All you need is love is a beautiful sentiment, but it's hard to be happy if you're weak from hunger and soaking wet from the rainstorm that passed by your cardboard shack.

On the other hand, the amount required is usually where people screw it up. A few years ago, Bangladesh, where income per person is extremely low, had scored the highest on a measurement of happiness. It really shows that money is far from being the most important ingredient in the recipe of joy.

Peace

Answer 2

Since we live in a world predominantly currency-dependent, we do need some money to survive. And since money has become an economic cog to almost all societies to provide people with basic necessities as well as luxuries, well, I have to say that some part of my happiness is dependent on money.

Let me just emphasize this:
Financial stability does give us comfort... a minimum happiness (contentment?). People sometimes say that they don't need money to be happy - that they can live a simple and almost immaterialistic lifestyle. Well maybe that's true - money doesn't necessarily bring forth happiness - but some income might help in our day-to-day lives. Leading a "simple life" is, anyway, relative (consider how Seneca led an arguably well-to-do life).

Money - or at least some stable income - can bring us some happiness. Once we have financial security to foster our basic necessities, we can then easily pursue things that are really important to us, things that can really give us authentic happiness (what the Greeks call virtue). So I guess what I'm leading to is this:

Money => stability/security => opportunity for virtue => happiness

Answer 3

Yes, money is important in society, but instead of taking
the value of money for granted consider some thoughts.
Can an individual eat money?
Can an individual breath money?
Can an individual build a paper house out of money?
Do people need to eat more than people needed to eat
a couple centuries ago? No. Why should the cost of
meal cost more money?
Within earths atmosphere is the growth of population
threatening the oxygen supply over time(considering
oxygen is recycled by plant population growth)? Why
is their incontingent inflation of money.
Paper comes from trees, but to argue that the cost
of nature growing trees increases over time is awkward
at best.
In essence economy should drive money, money should
not drive the economy. The value of money should be
determined by the economy, and in my opinion inflation
is an indicator that an economy is progressing towards
deficiency rather than efficiency. If the economy progressed
towards efficiency then the value of money today would
be able to buy more of a particular resource in the future
because the progress of economy should make resources
more easily available leading to a lesser cost of procurement.

Answer 4

Too much I'd say. I'm not materialistic or all fashion crazy, etc. I just would love the comfort of knowing we have enough money for the rent, bills and household needs and have even a little extra for just in case. Then yeah, I'd be happy and comfortable.

Answer 5

Like you, much of what I do is dependent upon money, or something like it, and I want to live comfortably and healthily. Wealth can be a vehicle that empowers us in many ways and allows us many choices that we wouldn't otherwise have. Undoubtedly, I am grateful not to have to live a hunter-gatherer life. However, my happiness is not based upon money and consumption. Based upon and dependent upon is not the same, though related. My happiness is based on being a true friend and having it reciprocated, learning provocative ideas and concepts, and facing and overcoming the challenges of my shortcomings.

Answer 6

I'm sorry for you. I understand your desire to have enough to live comfortably and to know the bills are paid but remember that for some people it takes $20,000 or more a month to feel comfortable.

My happiness is figuring out new ways to need even less money and then sharing my discoveries with other like-minded people.

Answer 7

Well money never brings anyone happiness but
it sure secures the necessities ..and need of everyday
life...
look at it this way ///Money is meant too circulate
that's what makes it important the more you use it
and manage it the more it will benefit its value..
so consider that for a fact... as Nothing worth Possessing
can be quite Possessed...this is ALL Material I Talk
About ...as there is always another DAY,,,as PAY DAY..
never LIE to yourself...if one can not afford to live TODAY
by the time tomorrow comes you will be more in DEPT
then that yesterday
So plan to save every cent you can,,,[thrift]
so much we spend on nonsense..Learn to respect
that Dollar bill as ..The Declaration of Independence
for which it Stands from Washington to Franklin...
I Quote [Federal Reserved]...don't you read labels;;?
[Note] meaning [SAVE] EVERY BILL YOU CAN
as Charity is GIVING...its not ment for the TAKING
As for money ..take it from ME [free advise]
but worth every DOLLAR no you are not LUCKY
NOR COMFORTABLE AS YET,,you will be when you plan
to SAVE this advise,,,with your PLAN independantly..

Answer 8

Not a whole lot of my happiness is dependent on money, I dont need money to spend time with my family, I dont need money to sit outside. But then again I like Money because when I get my check It just goes to show how hard I worked. and because i love giving back to charities and my community.

Answer 9

for the most part money is the result of hard work and ingenuity. i have no idea were people get the idea that those who have more money do so by some source of divine intervention and therefore money must be thought of as a superficial and fickle evil.

of course more money can make life more enjoyable. not only does it allow one more opportunities but it is also a sign of ones hard work and professional achievements.

HOWEVER, money and riches should never be a persons aim in life. family and raising decent children are extremely important. additionally money is by no means the only measure of a person's success.

Answer 10

I can do it on 5000 a month US and live very comfortably, but I don't live in a big city. If I lived in a city, it would take 8000 or 9000 to live the same standard.