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[Anonymous No.655621]

>money doesn't bring happiness, relationships do!!1

How many rich people have you heard whinge about being lonely?

How many married people have you heard whinge about being poor?

Exactly.

[Anonymous No.655624]

Neither of them really bring happiness, but I'd rather be sad and rich than sad and poor.

[Anonymous No.655628]

>>655624

>tfw sad and poor

[Anonymous No.655636]

>>655624
Then what does bring 'happiness'?

[Anonymous No.655638]

>>655636
Death. Might as well kill yourself now.

[Anonymous No.655640]

>>655638
>tfw thought about this a lot
Eh I've got plenty of time to be dead. May as well fill my life with something.

[Anonymous No.655643]

>>655636
There's no right answer to that question. It's whatever brings happiness to you. Helping others? Some sort of achievement? Ripping the wings off of flies?

[Anonymous No.655648]

True love to doing what you like, and seeing great results bring happines. No matter what profession, when you are truly happy with your work or yourself, everything else doesn't really matter anymore.

People don't achieve true happiness, because they never stop making goals. Which is good, motivation is not bad, but it also takes away the happy part of it. You might work your ass of for the goal and will enjoy the ride to it, but the only when you get over the finish line is where the true satisfaction comes down your spine. However you see, as fast as you reached that, you already plan on making another goal. How about you take a few days off and just enjoy everything you do.

[Anonymous No.655673]

>>655621
how do you avoid gold diggers though

[Anonymous No.655675]

>>655621
Whatever helps you sleep at night man.

[Anonymous No.655848]

>>655621
that ferrari looks like ass. find a better one

[Anonymous No.655851]

>>655621

I think it's more a case of people not understanding what their creature comforts are, and only pursueing those that are within their means.

My wife's been busting my balls about moving out of rural/small town west virginia.

But she fails to realize with the job she's acquired recently, she's being left with several hundreds of dollars a month in flexible income.

But no, I'm tired of this place. I want to move somewhere that actually has something! Baw baw baw.

[Anonymous No.655886]

>>655621

[Anonymous No.655949]

>>655621
I though about this problem, and in short - poor people, or those who need to work for a living (meaning right up to lower upper class) don't have time to truly contemplate their existence. Their... our lives are spent in day-to-day struggles and solutions to more immediate problems. Happiness for us is fleeting, for after an initial satisfaction of doing/achieving something passes, the drudgery seeps back in. The truly rich who never have to work a day in their lives if they don't want to have the opposite problem, I suppose. Its hard for them to be happy because in-the-moment satisfaction that only occasionally presents itself to the first group, can be achieved on demand by the second. They want to say... build a hospital somewhere in the 3rd world - several calls, a few weeks of flights and its done. Their unhappiness is existential, for when you can do anything you wish, does it even make a deeper difference?

The best combination is a rich simple man of hedonistic pleasures. Thats probably the best position in life on the pleasure/pain scale.

[Anonymous No.655954]

>>655636

uhhh... obviously the chemicals in your brain

[Anonymous No.656086]

>>655621
money doesn't bring happiness. It brings freedom. Freedom to do whatever you want. And that is part of happiness.

[Anonymous No.656101]

>>655636
Momma said that happiness comes from rays of sunshine that come down when your feelin blue!

[Anonymous No.656113]

>>655636
I've read a shit ton about what makes people happy. There are basically two ways to be happier in life:

>Regularly achieving goals
Things that people think that will make their life better, such as a promotion, or new car, will only show an increase in mood for about three months before their happiness levels go back to normal. So you basically need to keep achieving goals that you have yet for yourself that improve your life in someway

>Helping others
Unless you completely lack empathy, going out of your way to performing random acts of kindness makes you feel happy. Ironically it's probably the most cost-effective way of buying happiness.

[Anonymous No.656137]

>>656113
It's funny how MMORPGs mirror life and stimulate human wants and needs. Isn't it interesting how people who spend most of their lives playing MMORPGs just kind of neglect as much real-life things as possible to chase the dream in a fantasy world? Perhaps they just do it because they've been dealt a poor hand and have no problem going to the 'better' world? Path of least resistence.

What do you suppose will happen as technology advances and becomes more affordable? Will we see more and more of our workforce disappear as people leave real-life more often for their fantasy lives in virtual reality? Perhaps we'll just have drugs or buttons that will simulate dopamine release, even more direct than what we have now.

The more I think about it, the more I question what happiness actually is.

[Anonymous No.656150]

>>656137
Good points too. Something like mood helmets from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep will become a reality. It is already known that magnetic fields can affect mood.

Escape into the videogame world/ magical thinking is a known psychological defence against pressures of the real world.

[Anonymous No.656162]

>>656137
>buttons that will simulate dopamine release
I remember reading about an experiment where they created just that. The subjects pressure it on average once every 3 seconds (or close to that), and when it became time for the experiment to be over they begged and pleased to keep the button.

Experiments with mice have shown that a mouse will starve its self to death pressing the button even if food is readily available

[Anonymous No.656164]

>>656162
>the subjects pressed it

dammit

[Anonymous No.656168]

>>655621

You've never met a lonely rich man? I guess that's because you are poor and don't get to hand out with rich people.

Money is great, but it won't cure your mental problems and it won't turn you into a prince charming if you are miserable bore.

Only poor people think money can bring them happiness.

[Anonymous No.656169]

>>656162
>will starve its self to death pressing the button even if food is readily available

sounds like the video game deaths of a few kids who played for a very long time and didnt eat/sleep

[Anonymous No.656173]

>>656162
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.188.7109&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Source

Very interesting read if you have the time.

[Anonymous No.656189]

>>656162
>>656173
Very interesting, thanks for that.

[Anonymous No.656209]

>>656086
this is the correct answer

[Anonymous No.656238]

>>656209
what do you do

[Anonymous No.656263]

>>656086
>thinking the concept of freedom has a pricetag

Shiggy diggy doo

[Anonymous No.656301]

>>656238
It's concerning how gullible some people on this board are.

[Anonymous No.656343]

>>655621
Spend less on things and more on experiences

My goal is to become rich and be able to experience more than other people, a nice car won't make me happy but a year abroad will.

[Anonymous No.656344]

>>655636
Molly

[Anonymous No.656539]

>>655621
>How many rich people have you heard whinge about being lonely?

A lot if those shitty rich housewives reality tv shows are any indication.

Money is more important however, since it can provide more opportunities for you to be happy.

[Anonymous No.657636]

>>655636
Incredibly low expectations.
I was content all morning because breakfast was good and nobody treated me like shit.

[Anonymous No.658127]

>>655636
Friendship and ponies

[Anonymous No.658128]

>>655636
Friendship and ponies.

[Anonymous No.658150]

>>656343
this

[Anonymous No.658161]

>>656343
Mein negro.

I'm in living in my fifth country now.

[Anonymous No.658168]

Happiness is not a destination, it's a state of mind.

[Anonymous No.658222]

>>655621
>>money doesn't bring happiness
Picture related

[Anonymous No.658342]

>>656343
A top-class car is an experience too.

But it's okay if you don't like this kind of experience.

[99.8% Feedback No.659130]

>>655621

This was posted by a fembot goys, you're feeding a fembot that's realizing she's worthless.

[99.8% Feedback No.659131]

>>655886

Don't even get me started on divorce rates...OP is just trying to push you to getting married so your hard work can be taken away by a woman. Just stay single and fuck bitches all day long, fuck, adopt a 3rd world child and make the world better.

[Anonymous No.659132]

>>655636
Lolis in leather cat suits.

[Anonymous No.659181]

>>655636
dank memes my friend

[Anonymous No.659450]

>>659131
Stupid bitch. Doesnt even realize her keyboard is attached to a printer.

[Anonymous No.659759]

>>658222
Reality is just a bit too much for some people.