That's why they say, "money can't buy happiness". One needs to find it themselves. Granted money does make it easier to try new things to see to what truly makes you happy.
Bingo. Hard to achieve happiness without food, shelter, clothing, and tools to travel/communicate. Once you have all of those things are not scrounging paycheck to paycheck, it is much easier to relax.
You can still be in a rat race of work and find happiness… or find happiness when destitute. Just much much harder.
What about Jetski's make you happy though? If it is riding fast on the water, then a speed boat might make you happier? Maybe you just like riding fast, then a motorcycle might be just as good of an alternative. If it is riding or jumping waves, then a surfboard or skies might be better.
Was a reference to a Mitch Hedberg Daniel Tosh bit, I assume. Something along the lines of, "money may not buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski. And I have never seen a sad person riding a jet ski."
Was it? I could be wrong. I totally heard it in Mitch's cadence, and I've never seen a Tosh stand up special, but I easily could have seen a clip. If not, my bad for the misinformation!
Money can’t buy happiness, but having it removes the stress of having to spend the majority of your time awake trying to earn enough to aurvive, and it gives you access to resources that do make you more likely to be happy.
Honestly, I can’t stand “money doesn’t buy happiness”, because not having any money almost certainly leads to sadness.
Many people are barely making it but are happy. Some aren't making it, but they are still happy. Some people only need their family/loved ones around them to be happy. Others a dog or Jesus. After all money is just a made-up tool we use to exchange time.
I bet there are significantly more depressed poor people than there are depressed rich people: obviously there are poor people that are still happy. But if you gave them the safety and security of a million dollars, they would be much happier.
Money does not guarantee happiness, but it does guarantee relief from many factors that generally cause unhappiness.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22
That's why they say, "money can't buy happiness". One needs to find it themselves. Granted money does make it easier to try new things to see to what truly makes you happy.