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re: anyone who says money doesn't by happiness is a damn liar
Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:37 am to lsu777
Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:37 am to lsu777
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but most poor people are going to be stressed over finance
I disagree. The people I have experienced be the most stressed about money are people with tons of it or people pretending to have tons of it.
Most financially poor people, who live within their means, seem very content with their lives.
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Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:39 am to ZIGG
We don’t have a lot of money but we are all perfectly happy, as far as my family. At least if not they do a good job of pretending to be. 4 kids in public schools, all 4 with straight As, granted one is in college now and one in kindergarten.
We just don’t buy a lot of extra shite, I hunt public land, keep an older paid off truck, and almost everyday I’m off this summer we gonna have something planned with the kids. But I’m paycheck to paycheck and I’m as happy as can be and again, wife and kids are happy.
We just don’t buy a lot of extra shite, I hunt public land, keep an older paid off truck, and almost everyday I’m off this summer we gonna have something planned with the kids. But I’m paycheck to paycheck and I’m as happy as can be and again, wife and kids are happy.
This post was edited on 5/20/19 at 8:44 am
Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:39 am to ZIGG
Many can't buy happiness.
Neither can poverty.
Neither can poverty.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 8:40 am to NyCaLa
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Neither can poverty.
but can't you get welfare happiness?
Posted on 5/20/19 at 9:25 am to ZIGG
If you rely on money for happiness, you're never free.
Money can give security, not happiness. Now insecurity can cause anxiety which affects how happy you are.
Money can give security, not happiness. Now insecurity can cause anxiety which affects how happy you are.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:02 am to NyCaLa
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Many can't buy happiness.
But it can buy you a big enough boat to pull up next to happiness and drop anchor.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:06 am to ZIGG
I can’t imagine being happy while always worrying about covering this month’s rent and other other things poors worry about.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:06 am to 777Tiger
The smart family member will take a fraction of his trust at a young age, and move the frick off somewhere.
I know someone who did this... prob could have gotten hundreds of millions but took a much smaller cut to go away and I bet he's the happiest of all the family, or at least the one without stress. dude does whatever he wants with his fam. skiing, traveling, sailing, etc. just goes and does cool shite.
I know someone who did this... prob could have gotten hundreds of millions but took a much smaller cut to go away and I bet he's the happiest of all the family, or at least the one without stress. dude does whatever he wants with his fam. skiing, traveling, sailing, etc. just goes and does cool shite.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:09 am to RogerTheShrubber
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If you rely on money for happiness, you're never free.
I think it would be hard to be content living in abject poverty. There are plenty of miserable wealthy people in this world though.
This post was edited on 5/20/19 at 10:11 am
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:10 am to ZIGG
Not really. I work with guys who should have retired years ago but still work because they want more. It's stupid because the stress and BS is a poor quality of life.
There are also some guys who are in their 40s and look like they are in the 60s because they work all the damn time, never take off and sell back vacation days.
Money isn't everything
There are also some guys who are in their 40s and look like they are in the 60s because they work all the damn time, never take off and sell back vacation days.
Money isn't everything
This post was edited on 5/20/19 at 10:12 am
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:13 am to fallguy_1978
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I think it would be hard to content living in abject poverty.
I know quite a few bushrats who made that decision and are happy as hell. I just think most poor people are powerless over their own lives unlike those who choose minimalism as a lifestyle.
Eastern philosophy deals a lot with the subject.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:17 am to The Torch
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Would you rather live in Midland, TX and make $120,000 a year or somewhere nice and make $75,000 ?
If temporary, Midland. If permanent, somewhere nice.
The part about living in Midland, TX is that you don’t even get to enjoy the low cost of living that’s usually the silver lining of living in a shitty place. The oil boom job are far outpacing the housing supply so the housing market there is OOC. You’re paying similar to what people in Austin are.....but you’re in Midland
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:30 am to mdomingue
When people say Howard Hughes was miserable with all his money, they are missing the point. He was mentally I'll. He would have been miserable in any economic condition.
Of course money buys happiness. Money provides security.
Of course money buys happiness. Money provides security.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:33 am to ZIGG
Money definitely doesn't buy happiness.
But it damned sure helps.
But it damned sure helps.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:35 am to SoFla Tideroller
Interestingly men are wired for adventure and risk, women are wired for security. Men traditionally find happiness as provider.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:47 am to RogerTheShrubber
Money can solve problems that those without money cannot solve.
Doesn’t buy happiness.
Doesn’t buy happiness.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 10:54 am to PeteRose
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If you had all the money in the world but in a wheel chair with ALS, what good is it? Can’t even enjoy the simple things in life.
Im still going to say your quality of care will go way up if you are ballin' with ALS vs some scrub. You will get beers made in your honor.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 11:37 am to ZIGG
Smiled and cringed when I read some of the posts. If you thinking have some money will make you happy, you have never really been happy. I agree reduces some stress, but happy, no. There are people who are happy and have money, but it's not just because of the money.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 11:53 am to The Torch
If i can get away from my wife, Midland hands down.
Posted on 5/20/19 at 2:44 pm to The Korean
I was being flippant, but there is some truth that having some money makes things easier: our tangible life in a free, first world country is based entirely around the exchange of money. That said, in no way will it bring us real happiness on a silver platter like mobility will, or how 8 hours of sleep on a fully belly does, or the way a cold shot of water quenching your thirst on a hot summer's day brings satisfaction in its purest form.
Even then, no thing, person or activity has ever brought me a voidless, peaceful and content soul and a light spirit, except for the one who breathed His spirit into me at creation and whom takes it back upon my demise. As a matter of fact, basing my fulfillment in life solely on what tangible successes I'd achieved was something I nearly saw through to my own fatal end, and because of that time in my life I hate "wealth" because of what it can do TO me, but I love it because of what it can do FOR me.
Money does help, and not having it, mismanaging it, or an excessive love for it does cause evil: strife, death, crime, laziness, etc. Likewise, prudence and wisdom with it brings good- and lots of it- and it's an indicator of our wise use of talents gifted to us. A cautious, responsible, and respectful desire to own money (and plenty of it) is what'll put food on my table today, and having food on the table from the sweat of my own brow is a good thing, is it not?
King Solomon said that during my futile days under the sun I've a right- a duty- to enjoy my food, my drink and my woman (and she the same). It is my reward and my lot in life, and it is a good reward (New Orleans cuisine comes to mind). Sure, God will provide (or maybe He'll decide that He won't), but it's perfectly okay for me to desire more money so as to improve my lot in life, but to never ever let it get in the way of giving thanks to the one who allows me infinite blessings to arise for the day and make an attempt to do it.
It is absolutely important and reasonable to have a healthy respect and desire for money and the power it affords a man or woman to improve their quality of life for themselves and others; while also garnering a healthy fear and respect for its destructiveness:
Whether it be twinkies or collecting antiques, prolonged excess and idolatry never ends on a positive note. Money just gets the bad wrap because it's the starting point. Yes, money really IS the root of all evil, but it's not fair, nor safe, to place the blame solely on the root when it's the flower- when it's the twinkies and antiques- that provide the means for evil and all its components to propagate and flourish. The same root can sprout a plant that, when harvested, gives goodness to the world, and there's nothing wrong with striving to plant that root's seed and watch it grow.
Even then, no thing, person or activity has ever brought me a voidless, peaceful and content soul and a light spirit, except for the one who breathed His spirit into me at creation and whom takes it back upon my demise. As a matter of fact, basing my fulfillment in life solely on what tangible successes I'd achieved was something I nearly saw through to my own fatal end, and because of that time in my life I hate "wealth" because of what it can do TO me, but I love it because of what it can do FOR me.
Money does help, and not having it, mismanaging it, or an excessive love for it does cause evil: strife, death, crime, laziness, etc. Likewise, prudence and wisdom with it brings good- and lots of it- and it's an indicator of our wise use of talents gifted to us. A cautious, responsible, and respectful desire to own money (and plenty of it) is what'll put food on my table today, and having food on the table from the sweat of my own brow is a good thing, is it not?
King Solomon said that during my futile days under the sun I've a right- a duty- to enjoy my food, my drink and my woman (and she the same). It is my reward and my lot in life, and it is a good reward (New Orleans cuisine comes to mind). Sure, God will provide (or maybe He'll decide that He won't), but it's perfectly okay for me to desire more money so as to improve my lot in life, but to never ever let it get in the way of giving thanks to the one who allows me infinite blessings to arise for the day and make an attempt to do it.
It is absolutely important and reasonable to have a healthy respect and desire for money and the power it affords a man or woman to improve their quality of life for themselves and others; while also garnering a healthy fear and respect for its destructiveness:
Whether it be twinkies or collecting antiques, prolonged excess and idolatry never ends on a positive note. Money just gets the bad wrap because it's the starting point. Yes, money really IS the root of all evil, but it's not fair, nor safe, to place the blame solely on the root when it's the flower- when it's the twinkies and antiques- that provide the means for evil and all its components to propagate and flourish. The same root can sprout a plant that, when harvested, gives goodness to the world, and there's nothing wrong with striving to plant that root's seed and watch it grow.
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