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I agree with #2, but I think money can make you happy in the short term. People adapt to a standard of living, and changes can be either pleasant or not, but once someone is used to living a certain way, it's not so important how high that standard of living is.

As for the post, I think you could make a strong argument that we might be better off spending some of our national income building a better society through education and other such things, rather than on greater levels of consumption.

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