Money Can Buy Happiness

Does money buy happiness? OF COURSE money buys happiness. You don’t even need the converse to prove the point, but can YOU be happy if you’re hungry and homeless?

Of course you can’t. Your money buys you happiness every moment of the day. Don’t try to tell me that you’d be unhappy if someone handed you a house and a car. Those things cost a lot of money. Your money, my money, their money. Doesn’t matter whose.

The distinction I’d like to make is that money can’t buy fulfillment. This is why you see million dollar fund managers still gunning for “more”. It’s not about money anymore to them. They’re in a competition, and money is only “points” – a way of keeping score in their game. They might feel happy that they won, but whether they have any fulfillment in life… well, that’s another question.

This is because fulfillment in life comes from things other than money. Other than purchasing power, or ability to consume. Fulfillment comes from creation, and love, and relationships, and giving. But money buys happiness, in large amounts. Don’t think so? Try getting a lot of money and see how you feel.

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The only people who think that money doesn’t buy happiness, are the ones who have no money of their own. That means that OTHER people are buying their happiness.

“But brother, can’t you see that I’ve ascended beyond your toxic materialism?”

No you haven’t. Your sustenance is other people’s effort. Your happiness comes from the hand of your beneficiary. I don’t get political, but this is why I am a capitalist. In capitalism, you are free to create as much wealth for yourself as you want.

Your wealth creation never takes place in a bubble – you will naturally enrich everyone around you as you go. Your suppliers, your buyers, you business partners, your family and friends. You get rich, and so do they. And they’ll all be happier when you do.

The alternative is to be a parasitic sponge. Depend on other people, take from their productive capacity, and then have the nerve to complain that they owe you more.

If you don’t make money, you are naturally going to be an unhappy person. It is a popular idea today, from these unhappy people, that they are somehow masters to whom a great deal is owed. Let’s get one thing straight though – if you don’t make your own money, you’ve a lower rank in society than a child. You’re a pet.

Not happy about it? Then go make some money. Your attitude will change once you learn how.

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