Money does indeed buy happiness, and it increases with a bigger paycheque more than economists previously believed, a recent analysis has found.

  • acutfjg@feddit.nl
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    1 年前

    Money buys security and stability. The whole “money doesn’t buy happiness” schtick is just something rich people tell poor people to keep them in line. Or so they think

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      Money itself doesn’t bring happiness, though, it’s just one way of removing roadblocks to happiness.

      A person suffering emotional distress and depression won’t suddenly be cured when handed a sack of money. Especially if the distress and depression isn’t financially motivated.

      Our society is particularly monetarily motivated, so a lot of barriers in life are financial. But they are not all the barriers to happiness that exist.

    • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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      In my experience it’s something poor people tell themselves and each other, to the same end.