Now it seems to me that money is all there is to survive in the world. Since 2020, since family finances have worsened, it is slowly seeming like money is everything in this world. Where there is no money you will find nothing. There is a saying that many people say, money can never buy you happiness but to me this is the funniest saying. Because without money you can never get all the things you want for happiness. In every case in this world you must depend on money to survive. Now I have to force myself to believe that at the end of the day it seems impossible to run this world without money. Where you have to depend on money to do every job or take every step, from studying, there is no other way and at the end of the day it seems to me that studying where there is financial insecurity is also unusual or not worth it. Because when you see that your father in your family has taken the responsibility of your entire family on his shoulders and it has become much more difficult for him to carry the responsibility of the family, then you will no longer want to do anything other than earning money, then only the sense of responsibility will work in your head. I don't know how accurate my words are but to me it seems right now in this situation.
What you said in regards to the saying " money can never buy you happiness" is true. Without money, a man can barely be happy. But, there are several aspects and sectors of wealth.
For a man to be considered wealthy, he has to have assets, not money as in fiat currency, peace of mind. He has to be smart and be surrounded by people who are smarter. Good health and a healthy lifestyle. There may be more, but these are the most important. You see, which one of these things doesn't need money to be sponsored? None of them.
I think it's all a mindset thing, if one believes their happiness can't be bought by money, they would be free from it's bondage, and may really be happy without money. And if someone believes money can buy happiness, they may never be truly happy, unless they have money, and will always want to work hard for their happiness. So this is really a mindset thing.
You said you agreed that money can't buy happiness, but if I were to ask you, did you know what poverty is really called? Have you ever witnessed poverty? If you know the answer to these two questions, you will never agree to that proverb because I take that proverb as just a motivation for the poor people in other countries to be happy with the situation they are in. If not, can you be happy with hunger?
To clarify this proverb, most of these wealthy and rich people who always say that money cannot bring happiness do so because they have never witnessed or listened to the story of a poor man or even witnessed How the poor survive on a daily basis is because most problems of the rich are emotional, which might be a result of not having a child that will inherit their wealth, having some problems with their businesses and investments, or the fear of poverty. But for the poor, he is always physically,mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and socially not well. That is why you will never understand what poverty is unless you witness it yourself.