Money doesn’t buy happiness but financial instability eradicates it.
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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“Money doesn’t buy happiness”. Absolutely true. Look at all the miserable wealthy billionaires and trillionaires.
Money, however, does ENABLE happiness by warding off fear, despair, hopelessness and all other crap.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I heard someone say “money isn’t everything, but not having it is.”
phx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My take is that money doesn’t bring happiness, but poverty definitely can strip it away
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
“Money may not buy happiness, but it can but a jet ski, and I’ve never seen anyone on a jet ski that wasn’t smiling!” - some comedian
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
There was a commercial for a cruise line where the daughter stopped smiling as soon as she saw mom was filming, does that count?
Napster153@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I think what we’re looking here is for breathing room. The cost of living must return to sustainability for people to expand and regain lost stability in all expects of their lives.
Of course, certain people will try to gaslight into saying that being a serf for Neo-Feudalism is the best thing ever, and that an organisation or state that doesn’t serve your wellbeing or interest is the best thing ever