Can money buy happiness?

Having money would mean me and my love could be together a lot more :( so yes it definately would make us a lot happier!
 
AcidHell2 said:
No, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier.
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although from another thread, having a cool £1 Trillion (is it trillion in £ i dunno) would bring me happiness if I could not find it in someone, with it I could adopt if I was still single later on in life, would make us happy!
 
money makes life easier and can open up fun avenues but you still have to have the basics of having self esteem and good relationships to feel happy and content, money doesn't buy those
 
reflux said:
Hmmm, yes, long words = win.
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Actually, to avoid using the word 'endogeneity' would take many more words. Furthermore, it's a major issue with ALL research 'studies', and 99.9% of undergraduate dissertations don't even make any point of it. Therefore it means that you can't make any correct inferences from most studies. There's simply no point quoting results when they're arrived at in an incorrect manner.
 
Jez said:
No they would not.

Scenario A:
You have a large country house, gated, with a 599 sitting outside. You have no friends, no-one in your phone book other than work associates, who do not like you particularly and would not want to associate with you in free time. You sit there all alone on a friday night watching SkyHD on a 10' Projection screen, feeling cabin feeverish, thinking maybe you could take the 599 for an anonymous drive round the block and back to your empty house again.

Scenario B:
You have a 3 bed semi in an average street shared with your other half whom you are very much in love with. You dont have much in the bank, but you have enough for a stack of beers and you have a good few mates coming over this evening, with perhaps their other halves. You all plan to have a damn good laugh, and perhaps pop out to a bar for some drinks later on.

I know which i would rather as a long term situation, assuming that in scenario A you have no chance of ever turning it around.
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Am I the only person that would choose B?

I don't particularly have a wide network of friends and would much rather have a nice car instead... at least a car is nice to you (I know its only metal :p)
 
Skidder said:
money makes life easier and can open up fun avenues but you still have to have the basics of having self esteem and good relationships to feel happy and content, money doesn't buy those
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but if you already have those and somebody gives you a big pile of cash..surely life can only get better
 
Money doesn't buy happiness by itself, you can be happy without money but having money removes a potential source of worry in the case of not having enough. However it can also bring a whole new set of issues - what if people are just being nice to you because you have money, what if they secretly or even overtly covet what is yours, what if it creates enemies, what if you somehow lose it, why are you fortunate enough to have money and others are not?
 
A lottery win or similar would mean I'd have the most awesome time of my life for a couple of years, then I'd probably die either due to recklessness or too much partying :p

So it'd make me happy, but it would be quite ephemeral :D
 
wnb said:
Your asking the wrong question. Can having no money make you happy?
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You can certainly be happy with very little money provided your needs are met (see Mazlow's hierarchy for a basic order) but would you be happier with more money is yet another question that flows from that?

MattandJet said:
Thats a can of worms, you'll get torrents of patronising people saying "Oooo ooo work hard and you will 100% definately without-fail succeed" :rolleyes:
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Maybe I'm just thinking if you've got more money than Croesus that you can afford to ponder such matters. :)
 
An abhorrent, ugly person with lots of money will still find it difficult to have true friendship or love.

As for money buying happiness, it's subjective, if materialistic things make a person happy, then yes it can.
 
Jez said:
No they would not.

Scenario A:
Scenario B:

I know which i would rather as a long term situation, assuming that in scenario A you have no chance of ever turning it around.
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I think you're assuming other people are the same as you and you are dead on wrong.

I know I'd be happy if I had more money, as you know happiness stems form many things and it's its form is not a permanent ever lasting thing.
Happiness could be for a day, for a month, or for a year.

I don't need a relationship with a partner like many other people do and I have the friends I need, I don't look for more or want more.

Everything in my life is dictated by how many digits my bank account shows and it's all depressing.

There is so much I would pursue with my life if I was rich, this would make me happy. Things I may never do or won't until I'm much, much older.

I've always wanted to learn the insides and out of a car, even want to try a hand at being a car mechanic at one time in my life, oh how I could get right on that if I had the money.

I don't even have the money to buy a place/rent a place to work on a car, let alone have a place to live that has a big enough garage, or a garage at all.

I am saving to learn to fly eventually, if my investments all go to hell then I'll probably kill myself.

I love cars, Jersey doesn't even have a track here so we need to take a ferry, with our cars, to the uk, and then a hotel to stay somewhere, and all the fuel to get to said place. For, what, a FEW times a year? No! I want more.

I love shooting, I am part of a shooting club but I can't afford the other things I want, without going into details.

I love my hardware, why else would I buy them if it didn't make me happy now?

I'd probably keep my job, or try start my own business, I'd help out all my friends if I had enough (I don't have loads of friends, I rather like the few I have..true friends not just "people you know".

Travel the world knowing I'm not leaving behind debt or a job I'll need to get back etc.

The list goes on, the world is all about money, even in the poorest of poor, money paves the way. In the other end of the scale, poverty is making the lives of million horrendous.

Unless you want to live off your back in the middle of a rain-forest of course.

I just know that with money, there would be endless opportunitys and experiences for me to try that I ..probably never will in my life.

I want to experiences everything I can whilst I am alive, what keeps me from doing it? A quite average job and being stuck in a rut. (read:debt).

Greed? Maybe, I don't see why wanting to better my life through these things is wrong at all, I need to feed the hunger.
 
Happiness comes from within and all the real pleasures in life are the simple ones.

People spend half their life wishing they had more, bigger, better etc without first appreciating what is already all around them. Feeling content is all you need, you could have just the clothes on your back but if your content then what more do you want?
 
Yeah, I'm still pretty surprised at how naive some people are. It's a shame that they think that money is a certain cure for any problems they might have.

It's certainly not a lot to aspire to - thinking that money will solve all your problems is just as bad as thinking God will - either way, you're abdicating responsibility for your own life and actions.

Money might make some things easier, but it's no miracle cure.
 
Jez said:
No they would not.

Scenario A:
You have a large country house, gated, with a 599 sitting outside. You have no friends, no-one in your phone book other than work associates, who do not like you particularly and would not want to associate with you in free time. You sit there all alone on a friday night watching SkyHD on a 10' Projection screen, feeling cabin feeverish, thinking maybe you could take the 599 for an anonymous drive round the block and back to your empty house again.

Scenario B:
You have a 3 bed semi in an average street shared with your other half whom you are very much in love with. You dont have much in the bank, but you have enough for a stack of beers and you have a good few mates coming over this evening, with perhaps their other halves. You all plan to have a damn good laugh, and perhaps pop out to a bar for some drinks later on.

I know which i would rather as a long term situation, assuming that in scenario A you have no chance of ever turning it around.
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Or you could buy a large 4 bed detached in a built up area so you can still associate yourself with neighbours etc.

I'd do this. Say I had billions in my bank account, I definatley wouldn't go and buy the biggest house in existance.
 
I think it leads to it but doesn't buy it specifically, it pays for your travel to see friends, pays for gifts, allows you to live in civilised society and have a roof over your head for friends and family to come over. You couldn't drink with your buddies without it, nor could you go online to play games.

Without it you'd be nothing and people who have it take it for granted, people privilaged to have vast amounts concentrate on the negatives of money too much. Oh it's all going to waste, well no it's keeping your head above water, to live. My two pennies. :)
 
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