To think money could actually buy happiness?

[nonamemummy]

I personally feel money could buy happiness
Do you agree?

Happiness is really about being able to focus on what you have rather than what you wish you did.

I bet you never had to pick between having to put the heating on or having to feed your kids.

Money would bring me a lot of happiness. I could cut down my working hours and get the very best specialist care for my disabled son. Pay someone else to do the awful drudgery of day to day life and I could always afford to look my very best.

Plus there would be a lot of deserving people I could help out financially, and that would bring me a huge amount of happiness.

It would help me certainly! It doesn’t buy everything but tbh the other aspects - friends, family etc - are all ok for me already!

It always makes me laugh when the 70k argument gets trotted out.

It's not really an 'argument'.Studies have consistently shown that beyond a certain point, additional increases in wealth add little if anything to personal happiness.

Many many people have a income tens of thousands under that.

Yes indeed, and I'm one of them. But so what? The discussion is about whether money buys happiness, so it's relevant to point out that insofar as there is any objective evidence about something as subjective as happiness, the evidence suggests that it does, but only up to a certain point.

It's small comfort to someone to be told that people on 100k aren't really that happy anymore, when even a quarter of that income is unattainable to them.

Are people coming here for 'comfort' or to take part in a discussion? I woudl have assumed it was the latter.

@icedpurple

Agree 100%. Taking emotion out of the equation for a second, and looking at this completely objectively, the fact is, if money were "necessary" for happiness then no poor people would ever experience happiness. Conversely, no rich person would ever experience being miserable, depressed, or ever commit suicide. But the fact is, both do occur.

That said, if I was depressed -I'd far rather be rich and depressed than poor and depressed, because as has been pointed out- money buys you choices and enables you to seek help for your problems.

That sums it all up quite nicely beautifulstranger.

Sometimes though money doesn't even buy choices. Even if I lived in a gated and alarmed mansion with a Range Rover, a Bentley and staff, I still wouldn't be free of the abuse my ex still chucks at me. There are still situations where no amount of money can't make the slightest of differences.