Can Money buy happiness?

[Aylee]

Hello everyone ,
Reading articles all day long , I stopped on one question : Can money buy us happiness ? I was tearing myself apart between the two arguments , and in fact I have no answer right now. So I want to hear your opinion. What do you think about that can actually money buy us happiness ?

[Nour25]

the answer might not be that simple because it depends on the person who has the money..if you have money and you're a good manger than you can use it properly but if a spoiled person owns the money it won't be good at all.

[Geo777]

Hi Aylee,
Money is any object that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts in a given country or socio-economic context. Apart from that money is just colored slips of paper. So, can you buy true love, friendship, compassion, gladness, health, inspiration etc.?

Some people think that one who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness, because without it one can't appreciate the enjoyments of life. Others will warrant you that money works wonders.

The most important question is, what do you consider as happiness? It seems to me that the definition of happiness pretty much depends on who's defining it.

I agree with these Chinese proverbs:
With money you can buy a house, but not a home.
With money you can buy a clock, but not time.
With money you can buy a bed, but not sleep.
With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge.
With money you can buy a doctor, but not good health.
With money you can buy a position, but not respect.
With money you can buy blood, but not life.
With money you can buy sex, but not love.
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[Richard]

Hi Aylee,
In addition to what Geo wrote, I believe that a good name is better than riches.
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[Kitosdad]

I've been richer, and now I'm poor. Rich is so much better, but only for your bodily needs.
Now I am poor I get more satisfaction from my life than I ever did when I was rich. No longer the need to pretend, nor to try and convince yourself that you are better than others, because you are not! Life turned upside down for me ten years ago, and I didn't think I would survive through the anguish and pain. The money I had was ... worthless. It didn't ease my pain or suffering, and lucky for me, although I didn't accept it at the time, I lost EVERY penny.
I had to stop feeling sorry for myself and accept that no one was going to help me. Well, without asking the help on anyone else I got to my feet and did what I had to. It wasn't easy ... it still isn't ... but today, I am healthy and full of life again. Three dogs, a keyboard, and a packet of ciggies ... HEAVEN.
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[Cristina.ro]

Hi,

Long story short... money cannot buy you happiness but it can buy you comfort and more importantly, it can definitely spare you a great amount of humiliation.
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[Venkatmerag]

Yes my friends...

what you all said is right...

[Aylee]

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Maybe the money can buy us happiness. Usually the well-off are more optimistic about their lives.Optimism is a major factor in happiness.
Second, some medical evidences show those with more money live longer healthier lives than those with less. I've maintained money can make you happier ,because it represents convenience and time. By convenience I mean that more of the necessities in life are readily available to you. Lots of poor people are perfectly content.But, if you are wealthy, it's likely that you are going to be even happier.
BUT
The money leads to misery - were about well-paid executives who got huge bonuses , but were still unhappy.
Finally, one person didn't need billions of dollars. He just need enough so he didn't have to work, he didn't have to worry about bills , and so that every couple of years he could go down to the local car lot , pay cash for a new car , and not have to think about the money he spent.

[Bagheera]

Interesting topic you have raised, Aylee .

Well, it depends. On the one hand ,yes, ‘money doesn’t buy happiness, but only the rich say it.' :-) In my not humble opinion there is nothing romantic and interesting about poverty.‘Poor man is a rat in a maze. His choices are made for him by a power beyond himself. He becomes machine whose fuel is hunger. His satisfactions are pitifully restricted’.On the other hand, money gives you the freedom of choice and relative independence (since all of us depend on something in our life).
In fact, I don’t think that happiness is measured by the amount of dough. When you have wealth and no one to share it with you’ll be the most pathetic and the most unhappy creature. As, in my view, happiness is sharing, creating and promoting.

Still I’m a great believer that there is nothing wrong about having an ability of making good money and enjoying finer things in life. There are many advantages of being rich as helping others, who are less successful and lucky, donating, investing, creating, et cetera, et cetera. That’s one of the nicest things about wealth - it leads to generosity. Besides you have freedom to say ‘no’/’I disagree’ to smart alecs. You have a chance to influence, to change this world for the better. You have freedom to move, to be one’s own man, freedom to say ‘screw you’.
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[Bagheera]

[Speedtest]

Money can buy us things that can lead to happiness, but not directly.

[Najva]

My dear frinds
mony make you happier and this happines brings you more healthy .It makes you power so you can make decisions freely.

[Dmitry77]

Hi, everyone :)
I think that happiness is a very individual thing. A person can be happy enough having something in his life that not reffers to money or wealth by no means. But in general I would agree with people that think money can make us happier. If someone asked me if I would be more happy being wealthy I would say - yes. Because in my case it would mean rejoining my parents who I haven't seen for 12 years. And I think there are lots of liittle examples of how money can lead people, who are in general not interested in being rich, to somehow happiness :)
Sorry if my English is confusing :)

[Our Tort System]

When you're rich you have to worry about your money, about hitting the rock bottom some day when all your money run dry.
When you're poor, you're free from worry, you're certain you can't become a pauper some day because you're one now. Which in itself is a dreadful thought.
So I think you'd best be somewhere in the middle between poor and rich, so you don't have to eke your way though life and at the same time don't have to lose much sleep over your fortune.
I guess, you'd best be well off.
Just a thought.
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That's how I got where I am.

[Cristina.ro]