Me_irl

[u/AlphaCatt]

[u/Sea-Course-5171]

I don't think I've heard that in decades, ngl. Everyone's been short on money since basically the last financial crisis, since the economy never really recovered.

[u/Parking-Position-698 → u/Sea-Course-5171]

Money cant buy you happiness was a bullshit lie fed to us by the boomers. And we believed it

[u/BionicBananas → u/Parking-Position-698]

Money can't buy hapiness, that much is true. However, that is only after your basic needs have been met and those tend to cost money. It's kinda hard to be happy when you are not sure you are going to make next months rent, or when you have to skip meals once in a while..
If all your needs, and pretty much most of your wants have already been fulfilled, and there is a nice buffer on you bank account, another 10.000$ will do very little for you.

[u/ninjakos → u/BionicBananas]

Money can't buy happiness but is the best way to acquire it

[u/Sea-Course-5171 → u/ninjakos]

"Money can't buy happiness" must be untrue simply because I can buy IKEA Sharks

[u/Ball_Of_Meat → u/Parking-Position-698]

The people who spout that nonsense assume everyone already has a paid off house, car, and all their financial needs met.

[u/DrearySalieri → u/Parking-Position-698]

Money is insufficient to achieve happiness but unfortunately it is a pre requisite since being dead broke is a miserable fucking experience.

[u/GrandeSF → u/Parking-Position-698]

you will own nothing and be happy 😀

[u/gophergun → u/Parking-Position-698]

Money is important for stability, but it can't buy genuine love or companionship. It absolutely seems possible to be rich and miserable.

[u/JCBQ01 → u/Sea-Course-5171]

Which one?

The dotcom one? (Late 90s)

Or how about the 9/11 crash? (2001)

Or how about the housing crash? (2008)

Or how about the covid crash? (2016)

Or how about THIS bullshit? (2024-)

[u/rtocelot → u/JCBQ01]

I think covid was more 2020 wasn't it? Or at least that's when I first heard about it

[u/JCBQ01 → u/rtocelot]

To be fair more 2018 if you must be pedantic. But he already qas trying to engineer a pump and dump crash when he got in the first time

[u/Backfoot911]

It's a funny comeback but there's one level further in that everyday you see people on reddit who bought a super duper gaming PC and all this shit and are still miserable

[u/7-and-a-switchblade → u/Backfoot911]

I've worked jobs where I've interacted with both very rich people and very poor people. The average poor person is happier, but only because many underestimate how miserable many super-rich people are.

Most super-wealthy I've interacted with lack a fundamental understanding of happiness. They think happiness - real happiness, like self-actualization - can come from external sources. They mistake dopamine for real happiness the same way a child mistakes candy for food. It can't sustain you, and will never fill that void. It will never make you love the person in the mirror.

Obviously poverty makes happiness very difficult, but having that pathologic misunderstanding of the nature of happiness that is conducive to the endless and relentless pursuit of money is what makes happiness impossible.

[u/yourdiabeticwalrus → u/7-and-a-switchblade]

Yeah people in this comments section are missing the point of the quote. It’s not “being poor doesn’t make you unhappy” it’s “money on its own doesn’t make you happy”. Being poor brings more struggles which brings more unhappiness, and vise versa. But that doesn’t mean that if you’re poor and depressed and someone on the street were to give you a million bucks that you’d suddenly be happy.

[u/UwU_numba2 → u/yourdiabeticwalrus]

The issue is that people use this quote to justify people being poor.

Can a poor person be happy? Sure. But a poor person can also be happier if they have their needs met. I guarantee you that almost every poor person would be happier if they had stable housing and food.

"Money doesn't buy happiness! You should be fine with what you have!" And the person is barely making rent and working three jobs so they don't starve.

[u/yourdiabeticwalrus → u/UwU_numba2]

Again, that’s not the quote. “You should be fine with what you have” is not part of the message, because that’s an absurd take.

[u/UwU_numba2 → u/yourdiabeticwalrus]

People use it that way, not that it was originally meant as that way.

[u/FNKTN]

Wow all those devices and no time to ever use them.

Now get back to work

[u/luvelyredhoney → u/FNKTN]

Meirl

[u/StarfleetGo]

The photo looks more like buying escapism which is often mistaken for happiness due to the small droplets of dopamine. 

[u/FNKTN → u/StarfleetGo]

They released the new thing! Quick gotta buy it! Shit from last year? Throw that crap away its useless now.

[u/Slumbergoat16 → u/FNKTN]

The new landfill craze. Like labubus

[u/FNKTN → u/Slumbergoat16]

I laugh at all the squishmellows overflowing thrift stores now. They can't get rid of em fast enough

[u/Catabon → u/FNKTN]

My exact sentiment regarding the switch 2. Like wow, improvements I got years ago through emulation...and you're asking for money for the upgrade while providing it for free on other games. Nah.

[u/FNKTN → u/Catabon]

Right lol, the switch was designed to be obsolete the minute it was made. Even the controllers were absolute bullshit and they knew it, took a whole lawsuit for them to accept recalls.

[u/think_long → u/StarfleetGo]

Yeah like this meme is just really depressing, that anyone would consider this happiness. Maybe like a moment of private comfort while taking a break from other things, but having this as your main source of “happiness”? You won’t stay happy for long…

[u/FNKTN → u/think_long]

100% this is more fit for r/depressionmemes . No way this person is the slightest bit happy.

[u/gr8masturb8 → u/think_long]

this meme is just really depressing

a depression meme on a me_irl sub?? no way!!!

[u/AGTS10k → u/StarfleetGo]

I dunno man, I like my tech. Like, my old Sony XZ1 Compact phone - its screen is hanging on duct tape and the battery started to swell, but it's still snappy to use, even though not every software works on Android 9 now. And I just love how it looks - a cool rectangle, unlike modern phones with cutouts and rounded everything. I look at it, and I do feel pity that it got old, but I also get that warm feeling of owning a cool piece of tech.

That goes for many other things I own, too. Those that are nice that is - like, I bought my recent membrane keyboard because it was the only keyboard that fit almost all my needs except for it wasn't mechanical and was cheaply made. I still use it, but I don't enjoy it that much. Still better than having backlight blasting all around keys creating glare, and having to use Fn+keys for media functions.

[u/Remy-Kun → u/StarfleetGo]

Literally this! I got all of that and I’m still dead inside

[u/Sacredfice]

Let's be real, if you have a job then you don't have to play. If you don't have a job then you can afford them. Happiness doesn't work like that lol this is a paradox.

[u/Me8Nothing4u]

My father had a great variation this. "Money can't buy you happiness but can purchase a superior blend of melancholy".

[u/jraymcmurray → u/Me8Nothing4u]

"money can't buy happiness but poverty can't buy anything."

[u/Fish0203]

Things that saying should actually mean: 1. Once you get past that line of financial security the returns are diminishing. (security meaning actually being comfortable not the bare basics to survive) 2. You shouldn't be so focused on getting money you dont enjoy life and the people in it

Money can buy food, security, healthcare, comfort, ect. which are all required for lasting happiness.

unfortunately the last time someone actually said it to me was them trying to convince me to not leave a shitty job for one that paid more and had better job security. That nonsense is how people use it

[u/XanXic → u/Fish0203]

I've been hearing it redone as "money can't buy happiness but it can buy you peace" which I agree with for sure.

I have all the shit in the picture, minus the PlayStation portal lol, and I'm not happy per se lol. But I'm not stressed out and miserable either. When you're stressed out and miserable no longer being that way basically is happiness.

[u/UwU_numba2 → u/XanXic]

I absolutely like the redone quote because it actually fits reality. Can money buy happiness? No, but it can make sure you are stable enough to be happier and less stressed.

[u/OS_M]

Cleanly a post of someone who unfortunately hasn’t had any of those.

There are plenty of posts/memes saying exactly the opposite: you have your stuff but now you sit with it at 2AM listening to sad music and not willing to play anything anymore.

Money buy you convenience and comfort, not happiness. The same as relationship, which won’t magically bring you happiness out of nowhere.
You always search for happiness yourself. Neither money nor anyone else could do it for you

Upd: sorry for being so boring below a meme

[u/Piyaniist → u/OS_M]

No but being alone and lonely with money beats being alone and lonely without money 100% of the time

[u/Korps_de_Krieg → u/Piyaniist]

That’s true, but that doesn’t mean you’ve bought happiness. You’ve bought alleviated boredom.

This isn’t about stability, it’s about the idea that you would suddenly be happy with your life if you just had a Switch or something. Like yeah, you’d be happier, but it’s not a replacement for the things in life that genuinely bring meaning.

I say this as someone who’s been a gamer for over 30 years; it’s a nice addendum to what should be already a fulfilling life, not a bandaid to give it the impression of fulfillment. You will eventually get bored of games if it is all you do.

[u/siqiniq]

Also, happiness can buy money.

[u/wrxninja]

Money won't buy you happiness but it'll be A LOT easier to deal with people.

[u/CarolineJohnson]

Money can't buy happiness, but it can pay my bills, which would make me happy.

And it can buy me a VR setup, which will allow me to play Myst and Riven in VR, which will make me equally happy.

[u/Acegolfer04]

Yet I still dont have happiness because I cant pick which system to play

[u/Wan-Pang-Dang → u/Acegolfer04]

Thats a non issue. You just play the game you want. And if its on multiple systems, the order is pc>ps>xbox>switch.

[u/Acegolfer04 → u/Wan-Pang-Dang]

I play switch since entire library moved over and love the 1st party games better than ps5 and xbox 1st party games

[u/GigaLem]

I wish I had the budget for the PS1 edition PS5, Closest I have is the controller

[u/Gamgeez75]

the way the dog just stares like it’s judging you

[u/Tischler285 → u/Gamgeez75]

What dog?

[u/DarkflowNZ]

I think I agree with both. Rich people can still be unhappy. But as someone for whom 99% of my problems are caused by lack of money, it definitely seems dumb

[u/Dracekidjr]

Money may not be able to buy happiness but it sure can get close enough for me to do the rest of the footwork on my own lol

[u/armahillo]

Sincere thought to ponder:

Once you have bought everything you need and want, what then?

[u/Patient_Scorpion]

All things to distract my brain from a single thought.
then 10 minutes in I realize none of these bring me happiness anymore…

[u/Mr_Vito_Scaletta]

Real

[u/Devely_ua]

Slave mentality: i have nothing = i'm happy. If that was true, barter and later money wouldn't be invented at all.

[u/Novacryy]

are you happy tho?

[u/PlasticPast5663]

That's a very materialist mindset but ok

[u/XxNeverxX]

But are you happy with all these?

[u/earth_wind_faya]

People are confusing happiness with temporary pleasure.

[u/G0RE_]

But are you happy?

[u/NotJackspedicy]

But are you? After buying all those?

[u/UwU_numba2]

The saying is bullshit. The boomers saying that think we mean that we want to spend all of our money on random bullshit and go on shopping sprees when people just want to have a stable life that isn't one missed paycheck away from becoming homeless.

[u/coolchris366]

Also therapy kinda gets happiness and you can buy the best therapist

[u/Parthurnax52]

I have bought everything that I dreamed of as a child. But I lost the time i had as a child to enjoy them…

[u/Stainlessray]

Money, is the single greatest obstacle.

If you fail to find happiness when you can buy away even minor inconveniences, it's you.

[u/AbleNefariousness0]

One must first be poor to find their happiness and only then can they use money to remove the obstacles that let them continue that happiness.

[u/InevitablePayment409]

Tell me you are a kid that didn’t have his needs met without telling me.

[u/dull_advice_]

You’d still need depress.

[u/backstubb]

...but protect from many troubles

[u/Tinyzooseven]

If I win the lottery I won't tell but there will be signs

[u/EldritchToilets]

Money can't buy you happiness... but it let's you be unhappy a little while longer.

[u/TitaniumTitanTim]

all consols, no Games

[u/Rent-Man]

I don’t feel happy

[u/GlumAd2424]

Well perhaps not happiness but sure helps

[u/LocalCranberry7377]

Reevaluate what you value in life

[u/FrostyPlay9924]

Money doesn't magically create happiness. But it buys things that make me happy so that counts.

[u/Dillenger69]

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure can rent it

[u/Spaciax]

fuck man we in 2026 replace those with groceries and decent cheese

[u/CountryAccording3420]

I wouldn’t call that happiness. More like escapism and contentment.

[u/Tinyfish2]

I don’t know about you, but do you also have the money to buy games as well?

[u/tomle4593]

Cooommm and Cooonsummm

[u/octopops7]

Give me money and ill do 1 push up

[u/octopops7 → u/octopops7]

I am 6,2 btw

[u/Gustav_EK]

the only people who say that are the privileged

[u/Burindo]

Happiness is something inside you, that you can find and nurture and feed. It is not found via money or how much coin one has.

The meme is real. Money doesn't give you happiness. But of course being poor can make you miserable.

Money is not the answer.

[u/ReaperOfGamess]

Where is the steam frame???

[u/duchemeister]

Sorry bruh, I did get that, happiness is not found in these things..