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>money doesn't make you happy

>> No.442863

>>442855
My mom lived by that principle and now money problems are stressing her out and putting a strain on her marriage. She hardly has enough money to support herself. She can't help her loved ones. She doesn't even have a pension fund or any assets but she wants to retire in 5 years.

>> No.442867

>>442855
My mother has always been poor due to bad life choices. She is one of the most depressed and depressing people I've every known. Currently in between living with her mom at nearly fifty years old and transferring into a program.

Clever woman, used to be a model and an entrepreneur. Nothing but wasted potential now.

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>>442855
>money doesn't make you happy
[Citation needed]

>> No.442871

Nah, money is freedom.

>> No.444382

>>442871
Which is just as essential... As air. HOLY FUCK WHO IS EXCITED FOR THE LEGEND OF KOREA EPISODE 11?!

>> No.444384

Money makes me happy.

>> No.444386

>>442855
but sure as hell will not make you sad

>> No.444389

>>444382
Aww yes nigga.

>> No.444396

>>442855

>Parents used to be quite well off, owned their own business, maing about £50k a year
>Suddenly, Dad has heart attack (mild) and Mum has back problems
>Business has to stop
>Live off of welfare, on about 6k a year, all whilst supporting my little brother, my little sister AND 6 FUCKING HORSES
>Can barely afford anything
>Constantly being dragged to court to pay bills, which they talk their way out of doing
>Suggest to my dad he gets a part time job where I work
>"Hurr I dont want the gubbmint taxing me"
>K
>Last few years since being poor, theyve prattled on about how family is important
>Constantly asking me for my money (I only make minimum wage)
>Give in a few times, but they never pay me back
>Because I'm on such a shit wage, I work a lot of overtime so I have a bit of money
>"Anon all you care about is money!"
>"Anon you hate your family!"
>"Anon, we're in deepshit financially, why won't you help us out!!!!"
>"Anon stop working all the time and stay at home and do shit for us whilst we dick around with our fucking horses"
>Horses aren't even insured, have no fucking way of paying for vet bills
>Can't afford to look after the car
>Can only afford to have one meal a day
>There is nothing but arguments in my household.
>One day, family accuses me of stealing from them
>Tell them I don't need to steal the money, because I work 60+ hours a week anyway
>"No, anon, you stole our money!"
>Whereas I can't leave money in my wallet or off my person, because it goes missing in the house
>Fuck this, get outta there

Money doesn't make you happy - it just helps provide a bit fo secuirty, so that if something bad did happen, you know you can afford to get it sorted. I can't understand this mentality of money is bad.

Apologies for personal blog moment, but I feel like it was relevant

>> No.444400

>>444396
why were the horses fucking eachother

>> No.444424

>>money doesn't make you happy

someone hasnt been to thailand

>> No.444467

>>442855
Surprised? You shouldn't be, it's common knowledge that money won't make you happy in itself, but a lack of money will make you unhappy. So, focus on getting enough money to sustain your lifestyle, and you'll be happy.

Personally, I'm going to aim for retirement before 40 (living off capital gains after that). Money buys freedom and time (as in not needing to waste time on work), and there is nothing more valuable than freedom and time.

>> No.444474

>>442855

It's helped me live a lot easier and gotten rid of a lot of worries.

>> No.444478

>>442855

Money may not make me happy, but not enough money will make me too worried about making enough money to survive to be anything but pissed at life.

>> No.444481

>>442870

wikipedia.org Search: Robin williams

>> No.444492

>>444481
>what are outliers

>> No.444495

Money can't buy you love.

But cocaine off a hooker's ass is close to love.

>> No.444509

>>444481
Money can't make a mentally ill (see depressed) person non-mentally ill.

It can however provide treatment but treatment cannot occur unless the person wants to take it (or at the very least is forced to take it and sees benefits happen).

Money does and can provide happiness, but there are exceptions to that rule (such as those who are mentally ill).

>> No.444516

>you've never pulled the edge of a dollar bill across your pee hole

>> No.444524

it can buy you a yacht to suffer on.

>> No.444527

>>444524
it can buy you endless pee jars

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>>442855

I submit exhibit A

>> No.444794

>>442855
Grow up. Yes it does.

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>>444382

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444839

Seems like it does

>> No.444887

>nothing will make you happy but delusion

>tfw looking into the truth will kill you

>> No.444895

>>444839
tfw

>> No.444903

>>444887
iktf

>> No.445049

>>444839
How is one able to make that much?

>> No.445254

>>444530
You'll get used to riding on it.
The human ego constantly forces you to struggle to achieve a goal. And when you achieved it all, you die.

>> No.445261

>>442855
Who the hell told you that?

Go hop into your $20,000 ATV and buzz your ass over to your clandestine opium poppy fields in your private $50,000 greenhouse smack dab in the middle of your $250,000 contiguous piece of property, and tell me money doesn't make you happy.

Protip: for the ill people, it just doesn't make them happy *enough

>> No.445265

>>444839
fuck you and your freedom, good luck outrunning a US government mind control satellite faggot, or even a network of directed broadcast towers

I suppose you could try to buy your way out of it, if you weren't denied free speech.

>> No.445277

>>445049

by never browsing 4chan and actually getting to work

>> No.445280

>>442855
It may not make you happy, but it can't make you UNhappy. You may not have a girlfriend or friends, but you at least have financial freedom.

>> No.445281

>>445280
No, money makes you happy. Don't believe poor people trying to make themselves feel better. There's just a point of diminishing returns. It's more of a logarithmic relationship between happiness and money.

>> No.445284

>>445261
Same here. Like what? that stuff sounds awesome OP. I want that so badly.

>> No.445312

>>444839
Based Canadian Millionaire using CIBC

>> No.445347

>>442870
I heard it peaks at 70K (that was a few years ago, so it's probably more now). Just enough to be financially independent without needing to worry about money management (though with inflation the way it is that's not really the case anymore, if you have money, you got to leverage it these days).

>> No.445348

>>444386
This reminds me of a tune; excuse the faggotry, it always made me smile:
>Money can't buy everything
>Money can't make you a king
>Money may not bring success
>Money can't buy happiness

>But one thing that I am sure
>Money doesn't make you poor
>Money doesn't make you sad
>Money can't be all that bad

I like having money, but I know there are certain things I wouldn't trade for any amount of money.

>> No.445352

>>444839
>Keeping 12 million dollars in a Canadian bank
>Keeping 12 million dollars in any bank
This guy is in for a sore lesson, I think.

>> No.445379

>>445352
Is there anything particularly wrong with a Canadian Bank?

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445386

>>445379

they mess with Putin's politics

and Putin will mess with their economy

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445387

>>445386
you're an idiot

>> No.445388

>>445386
i pay zero fees for my account and objectively canadian banks remained very stable throughout the last recession

>> No.445393

>>445388
This, Canadian banks have the strictest polices and thus remained very stable during the last recession

>> No.445394

>>445352
Canada is technically the strongest nation in North America

>> No.445396

>>445388
>>445393
>>445394
>doesn't know about the Canadian housing bubble
>doesn't know that Canada has a higher unemployment rate than the US
heh

>> No.445406

>>445396
>housing bubble
>unemployment rates
We're talking about BANKS here

>> No.445407

>>442855

It means you haven't been shopping in the right places.

>> No.445413

>>445387
And he's proud of it.

Fuck off man, let him be stupid. Not like he can harm society by shit on 4chan.

>> No.445420

>>445407
Actually, there was a study that showed that it's using money to get experiences and not possessions that makes a person happy. Like, the fun of a new car wears off but the memories of Electric Daisy Carnival will stay with me forever. Same with upgrading your PC. It's cool, but ultimately the games (experiences) are the true source of the happiness.
At the end of the road, it's the journey that mattered. When you can buy your way to the end of the road, don't. Buy the experience instead.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/10/happiness.possessions/

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445472

No, money typically doesn't make you happy unless you can be happy without it. I say typically because in any case there will be outliers.
I feel like the whole "people with a lot money aren't happy" thing is like the noisy minority of personal finance. For every unhappy wealthy person there are probably multiple happy ones.

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445478

>>445472
You're wrong.
You have to be appreciative.
There are plenty of poor people who couldn't be happy with 10 billion.

>> No.445483

>>445478

Perhaps you're right.
But it's also worth mentioning that "sudden money" (e.g. winning the lottery) is a lot different than building wealth over time.
If you gave a poor person 10 billion, their life would probably fall apart as has happened to so many lottery winners.