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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Money can't make you happy.
Lack of money can make you miserable.
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I think the problem here is that some people can’t get beyond the miserable part. If you are young and poor, as I’m willing to bet many of you are, money will be your top worry. Everything you do will be based around the money in your pocket, from paying the rent to getting pizza. There will never be enough money to do everything you want, and get everything you want and you have no idea where you will get more.
I was once young and poor, but I always had backup plans, and a long term plan to be sure I wouldn’t be poor forever. Having disposable income is great, or perhaps I should say was great, now that my wife isn’t working it will get tight a while, but its not the happiness maker some of you seem to think it is.
Having money obviously removes the big worry that lack of money can cause. You will never be stuck in a spot where you just can’t do what you feel you need to do to survive. It helps at home as there won’t be pressures on how the money is spent, or any of the other pressures having to many bills and not enough cash can bring.
This state is not happiness. This state is just having a need met. It can make it easier to be happy, but only a very shallow person is made happy based on what they buy. People rant on consumerism yet they think that same consumerism will make them happy?
I now have a young son. No amount of money would make me happy if it required that he suffer for it. His well being is more important to me than money. I’ve seen to many rich parents with shitty kids they spoiled to the point of them being truly good for nothings, who are anything but happy with how life has gone.