Topic: Money and happiness. - page 19. (Read 3482 times)

It's definitely a good feeling if you are financially stable and enjoying the good company together with your family. But only few people have achieved this goal because the truth is most of us have different issues about money and family.

Happiness does not only come from finances because even poor people who don't have good finances are still feeling happy despite of their status in life. So i must say, happiness is built within. If you can be happy with small things around, then there's no need for you to earn huge amount of money. It's a matter of satisfaction and contentment even in small things.

It depends on the people itself. I have been encountered with rich people band they said they can't get pleasured easily because they can always buy stuff with their own money. while normal people have dream to buy stuff and if whenever they get a chance to buy that stuff then they have achieved stuff and get pleasured. Somehow I feel it whenever I have money to buy stuff.

Money doesn't necessarily bring happiness but what it does it creates comfort, someone who does not have money is constantly is searching for a way to get it, he is always thinking about how he or she will be able to eat or sleep tonight, and therefore creating anxiety that looms over and keeps your mood down, and a rich person does not have to think about that which creates a sort of comfort and allows them to live their lives as they want, but then again every person has their own problems, and with money comes other issues and other things that create anxiety, but that is just my point of of view.

It's no secret that a man's happiness can be measured by how much he earns
Men who have a lot of money are definitely more free in making their choices and also have low life pressure

I'm not here saying money is everything, but everything costs money
When you have a lot of money, there are many things you can control

When Joy, Peace of Mind, and Security are all present, it is fine as long as our movement doesn't negatively affect others.
Money provides comfort, gives you the resourcefulness to learn and to earn more.

You would rather have...so it means you don't have either, and at this point how do you think you can say it for sure?
As for that saying, maybe it doesn't bring happiness if you're a total moron but in all the examples people like to give as arguments I see only people that got rich, then lost the money they won, and end badly. So basically it was losing the money that got them unhappy. Well, maybe money won't bring you happiness but I challenge you to find someone who thinks poverty brings anything other than gloom and despair.

We all love to quote those sayings, act all poetic and righteous but I wonder how many of those claiming money won't make them happy would stop at stabbing their own relatives in the back for a couple of millions? Yeah, it's easy to say now I won't do it, but keep saying the same with the money in front of you!


Pretty simple, the difference in what makes you happy is also proportional to the income.
A user that has bought his first 10 yo car with $2k car is happy with it, it makes noise, it's not comfortable, it can't go over 90, but he made a great deal, he is happy. A guy buying a 200k Mercedes finds one day that the tire pressure indicator on one of the wheels is off, he goes infuriated to the dealer and demands it to be fixed immediately cursing all day for the time lost. It's more about expectations and self-beliefs than actual happiness.

Same for people, for some who have been living all their life in poverty finding a 10mp2 home and having in reserve enough money for food for one year is awesome, for somebody in Europe who had never experienced poverty or job insecurity not affording one year to travel abroad to some tropical island because he has to pay tuition for two kinds can make them unhappy.  But make the first case live in the same conditions as the second for 10 years and after that having just 10k in his savings would also make him distress and discouraged.  
 

You cannot buy happiness but you can use money to be at a better type of living which won't put you at distress in life. We've got several descriptions about being happy and relating it to money and it varies.

But for me, I'll be happy if I'm living financially free and that's what I want. I've got more time to myself and family and that's the description for me of happiness. Being able to enjoy life with them and at the same time, I'm already out of the rat race.

The topic is quite interesting. In our country there is a famous saying on Facebook as follows: "We have 100 different problems, but only 99 problems can be solved with money". The meaning of the saying is the role of money in modern life. Money makes everything easier.
Let's try to imagine the application of money in life. love for example. Love + money will be a sublimated love.
Family life with money will be a life without worrying much about living expenses.
Don't say money has nothing to do with happiness. Think of your 40-year-old at a big high school meeting, without a house and a car compared to everyone else.

The correlation (first chart) is actually quite striking, particularly on a logarithmic scale.

There is also considerable evidence (second chart) that the standard deviation of happiness within a population drops as per capita GDP increases... i.e., as the average wealth within a country increases, the levels of inequality of happiness reduce. We might expect to see this in poorer nations, as people are lifted above the level of mere subsistence... but the trend is valid in developed nations, too. This for me is somewhat counterintuitive... given rising inequality within developed nations over recent decades, we might have expected the lines to run the other way (although the chart does stop at 2007). There are of course many other potential factors to consider; I have several ideas, but I don't want this post to turn into an essay, so I've leave it there .





https://ourworldindata.org/happiness-and-life-satisfaction

I read similar studies in the past and in my opinion they are right, we need a certain amount of money to cover our needs and then an extra to cover for a few nice things we may want, after that any additional money that we have does not really produce more happiness, also while some think as this being bad it is not true, we need resources and a basic level of those resources is needed, and if we do not have them then we need to find a way to get them otherwise unhappiness naturally follows.

Some can say that money can't buy you happiness but for me it can buy you piece of mind and comfort which are some key features in achieving a happy life. Money while being earned most of the time gives us stress but after it gets earned, all of the exhaustion and madness we have inside of us goes away specially if you recieve high salary each month. Money and happiness are correlated to each other, I don't know if there's a study that says so but in my opinion, both are tied together forever even on your last days. It can be the one that extends your life which will make you feel happy if you still want to live.

I don't see a correlation between money and happiness. If someone thinks that money will make him happy than he will spend all his life trying to get money and be euch one day. Buy how much money is enough? Once you have one million you probably want another one. Also you will be afraid to lose that money again. In my country we use to say that money doesn't buy you happiness. I would rather have a family that loves me than to be rich.

I guess I know the exact and best answer regarding the relation between money and happiness. Not all the rich people are happy. If you didn't have enough money before, once you gain the money and get rich you will be happy but that's temporary and people will be depressed after a while. They usually try to do something fun and enjoyable with their money and sometimes they will do some donations to fade out the depressant, however, that's only temporary while deep inside their are still depressed. 

Money can buy anything as long as you can afford for it, and the thing which brings you happiness can be bought then money can buy you happiness. But its highly subjective since not everyone get happiness woth the same thing, some people wants to spend time with their families but they never got time for that.

Having some level of financial stability affects your thoughts and mood greatly, it is very true, when you have some money in your pocket you feel like 70% of your problem have been solved, because with money you can get things done easily, people listen and pay attention to you, and if you don't have it, that is the opposite of having it, you will be frustrated and sad, and you will wish to have it and be ready to do whatever it takes to earn money.

The modern world becomes more practical and love becomes more pragmatic.  Sometimes, you will hear the idle song "a picture hut, two hearts of gold" but it is just a picture woven in the legend.  Modern love involves a lot of calculation, between one or two people but I insist it is a fact.  Happiness now does not contain simplicity, it includes many factors between status, money, fame -> happiness?  Many people still don't understand what happiness is?it is...

That's true to some degree because a man will not fight back over anything when he has something to protect and he has something to comeback to unlike someone without a money, they will not be scared on what to do next because there's nothing waiting or worth protecting for them.

well, actually what is the basis of most people saying that money is everything or money does not guarantee happiness. everyone has their own version, some claim money is everything, some say money doesn't make you happy, or money can't buy happiness. whatever and it is an expression of the reality of each other's life. In economics we need money to survive. to buy a sack of wheat also cost money. to buy coffee at starbucks also use money. money is only a tool and its function is nothing more, just a medium of exchange to get what is needed. note well.


As for happiness, it lies in how one responds to it. because the main point is "the aspect of gratitude that plays an important role in a person"

Once you know the value of money, you wont get confused about money and your happiness because for sure you are using your money to fulfill your dreams, to help people and to live a happy life. On the other hand if you don't have that much but you are still able to do what you love, then that's happiness.

The definition of these two will always depend on every person, happiness is something that satisfies your personal wants and needs, always appreciate things big or small because life is too short to be stress.

Well said. I also believe that money does not bring happiness all the time. Yes it can give us joy and excitement but it's only temporary because after a week or two, even if you still have lots of mesoney, your mood or behavior will definitely change.

However, having a lot of money this time will eventually change your lifestyle into your own target goal. But that does not mean that you will be happy for the rest of your life. You will still experience disappointments and frustrations even how wealthy you are. Money is definitely not a measure for your happiness because it can even lead you to do evil when greed becomes the center of your life.