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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The question is whether someone has "enough" money. Until you can live comfortably, more money DOES buy more happiness. Once someone can comfortably live and engage with interests, more money doesn't buy more happiness.

When someone says, "money doesn't buy happiness." what they're actually saying is they have enough money and they do not understand how poverty works.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A billionaire doesn't buy billion times as much clothes or food more than a comfortable middle class person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They buy sweatshops and meat packing plants.

Try not to nitpick the difference.