Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy a lot of the prerequisites
I’d argue it can by happiness in a very literal sense since you can pay people to do things you don’t want to do, thus freeing up your time enjoy however you like.
Having to not do certain things may not make you happy either. Maybe you have some other problems
Being able to spend your time doing things you want to do obviously makes everyone happier.
Context matters. This is an appropriate statement to make to someone who has enough to live a comfortable life but is always chasing more. But to say it to someone struggling to make ends meet is just incredibly disrespectful.
after a certain point*
i doubt someone like elon musk is as happy as he is rich, id argue the opposite.
being debt free and unworried about cash would make me happier tho
The people I know all seem to understand the “after a certain point” concept. Up to a certain point, money is directly connected to happiness, and I my group understands that.
Still, a good meme (or whatever it’s called). A reminder that most thing we want to believe are more important than money are only obtainable with money.
“Money can’t buy happiness” is a great mantra for rejecting the capitalist enshirining of wealth as a virtue. It’s important to see happiness as something more complex than income.
The issue is that when interpreted as “poverty is no excuse for unhappiness”, it loses all valid meaning.
See also: “Life isn’t fair”
Alternatively, we could say “money can buy happiness, and that’s the problem”.
It may be essential, but not sufficient. That’s all this statement claims.
Okay but for the vast majority of us living on the precipice of homelessness and always budgeting for how much ramen noodles we can afford it is crass and insensitive and this meme is calling that out.
Unless you are advocating mass redistribution of the ill gotten gains of capital please shut the fuck up with this condescending debate pervert bullshit.
