Can money buy happiness?
461531
Hey loser, when you post answers to my questions make sure your illeteracy doesn't show as clearly as it did when you answered my question.  You stated it as me... hmmm very interesting.  So tell me what is your education level?  High School?  That is so cute.  Grow up you uneducated moron.  Oh and by the way, to get out of the cycle of poverty you must obtain an education.  Not a tech school, not a community college, but a higher education.  30,000 a year is poverty.  In order to survive you must make at least $100,000 a year and even that is hardly touch the upper crust of upper middle class
953575
Ofcourse man, money buys happiness....with money there are lesser problems in life....with no money, its a total hell....\n\nexample would be? check-out the homeless, are they happy? I DONT THINK SOOOOOO....\n\nCheck-out Bill Gates, is he happy?  well, you can answer this...
409205
Yes!  Money can't buy health, or love.
174815
poor and happy and win the lotery lol\n\nSeriously, money dont bring happyness. All of the contrary  they bring worries, selfishness, and greed. The more money you have you will always want more. \nYou could have all the money in the world if you dont have health or someone special beside you to enjoy them with. One worry of the people with lots of money is that they can never really know if people like them for who they are or for their money.\n\nI wanna recomand u a great movie which is related to your question. is called Trading Places from 1983 with Eddy Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. is a great movie. watch it.
1023375
Start tithing.\n\nYou'll find yourself working and budgeting to give back the first fruits of what you make  rather than to be unsatisfied with senseless purchases.  You will derive TRUE happiness from knowing you are helping others, and find yourself with less of an urge to purchase stuff to be happy.\n\nPray about it...see what you think.
716524
My psychology teacher had said that most happy people aren't wealthy. Money tends to make people selfish, greedy and mean.\nI wouldn't mind having some though!! \nSeriously, I'm poor, but I'm happy.
402546
Today both are important. Money and happiness.\n\nMoney to make ends meet and happiness to give meaning to your life.\n\nGiven a choice I would chose happiness.\n\nMoney can't buy happiness and even with all the money in the world my life will remain the same.\n\nThough if I'm happy then I will have the spirit to put in my best in all I do which will also help me excel at my work and earn enough to at-least make ends meet.
376645
Many people equate money with happiness, even though test after test in psychology shows that lottery winners are some of the most depressed people on earth. \nIf you think people want your money, what have you been doing with your money that would make them want it? Do you buy things for friends and family? Are you flamboyant in any way with your money? Do you use your money as a way of getting approval from others? \nMoney helps people get things, money may not be happiness, but it is power. A person who has a lot of money has access to things that people without money don't have: security, property, perks. \nIt's not easy for some people to get money, and even if they have a good job, it's often never going to get them enough to be on par with Donald Trump. \nCoveting money is a popular American pastime, and watching "Survivor" should show you how crazy and cutthroat people are willing to get in order to have a shot at winning a million. \nAnyway, I don't know why everybody wants your money, but I make enough to be happy, so I don't want it, and the above insights are free, I won't charge you. Have fun rollin' in it! $$$$$$$$
466058
Any job I can enjoy doing that would allow me the benefit of taking care of my family comfortably is fine with me.  Money can buy many things but nothing of value.\nAnd realistically, an income is a spending limit, you know how much you can spend until next pay day and the more we have the more we want so instead of killing yourself to make it up the corporate latter in the world to enjoy spending money on material things, which can all be wiped away at the drop of a dime like my things I lost during Hurricane Katrina, all the money in the world couldn't replace family pictures, souvenirs, awards, certificates, heirlooms, etc... try enjoying life!
304104
I would say both! But i will also tend to lean towards happiness my friend. Financial reward is definetly good when it comes to material gain. Once one has money, one can achieve greater things such as material spending etc... Although when one has no material gain, what will you do? On the other hand, if you are happy, then what else does matter? \n\nFor example: You have earned $5000 a month. You will spend it on rent, utilities etc.. But you will also spend it on something you like because it will make you happy. Well it will make you think that you are happy!!! But what if you don't have that amount? What if you just have happiness? You don't even need to spend on anything, but you will still be happy. And what is better than being happy? If you know what happiness is, then everything else doesn't really matter...\n\nThere are people out in the world who are doing jobs called volunteering. They are actually doing it for their own happiness (even though they are doing it for their resume also)! But if you talk to some of those people, they will tell you that the best accomplishments in their life was to help those people in needs, not the amount of money they were making 15 years after that!!!! \n\nSo yes both because you need to survive in the world today, but it is more important to be happy than be rich! Cheers!
306768
Possibly, but you'll probably be miserable knowing your whole life that you decided to choose a path that was all about money and not about happiness.  I chose a path where the money wasn't the incentive and I couldn't be more thrilled about it and I'm not doing too poorly in the financial dept either.
570454
no.money can buy you sex and poverty love takes money
1123766
Just because you have money doesn't mean you will be happy. Besides the love of money is the root of all evil.\nwhy not work as hard as you can and earn the money that you need?
1123374
The greedy thing is money...I would think it would make me happy but maybe peace
1154794
that's how i feel.  i can be unhappy and broke or unhappy and rich so why not take the latter.  i can go shopping and make myself feel better for a few if i got money. haha.  or heck, maybe i could even figure out how to do postitive things with my money and find true happiness!
1098822
The concept is easy and I believe Aristotle explained it very well. Ask yourself what you want in life ? what are your goals ? well some of them could be money,fame or power. Now if you take a deeper look you realise that you want none of them for their sake! You want money so that you could but what you want and fulfill your needs, you want fame so you would be known among people and etc. There is only one thing that we want it for the sake of itself and no alternative motives and that's happiness. Happiness is what we want eventually and all other things such as money are just means which could help us gain the goal which is happiness. I hope I answered your question
993624
I agree with you (but you shouldn't have to pay for a girl, unless you can't find one on your own but that's none of my business) - but everything else you said I totally agree with - I have no idea why they say that.  I think money can buy happiness.