Money does indeed buy happiness, and it increases with a bigger paycheque more than economists previously believed, a recent analysis has found.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Money doesnt buy happiness.

    Money buys medical care, that leads to happiness.

    It buys good food, which leads to happiness.

    it buys shelter and transportation, that leads to happiness.

    Having money removes one of the biggest, most miserable stressors in the vast majority of peoples lives… Which leads to more happiness.

    It offers freedom to splurge and do something for yourself, which improves your happiness.

    Money cant buy happiness, but money can buy a fuckload of the things you need to give you happiness.

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      10 months ago

      Money cant buy happiness, but money can buy a fuckload of the things you need to give you happiness.

      There’s a small bit of truth in that saying so it makes more sense to phrase it from the opposite perspective: “Money cant buy happiness, but money can fix a fuckload of the things that cause unhappiness.”

      Medical care doesn’t lead to happiness, but lack of medical care surely causes unhappiness

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      9 months ago

      Having money means you don’t have to be a complete wage slave. When you’re not afraid of getting fired, when you have means to get by if you’re out of a job, etc. you don’t have to submit to abusive bosses, and you never feel like you’re helpless and can’t leave the place you work.

      With enough money, you may not need to work at all.

      In a capitalist society, money buys a way out of the always looming menace of the reserve army of labour. Maybe not completely, unless you’re dirty rich, but enough to remove helpless serfdom and slave-like conditions from one’s life.