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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Money doesn't buy happiness.

What it does is eliminate and prevent most causes of human unhappiness, and practically all unhappiness based in meeting basic human needs.

And I'm sorry, but daddy not being proud of you or mommy dying young when you have means doesn't equate to the misery of rooting through a dumpster out of hunger or having a pig kick you out of an underpass into the rain to die of exposure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this assumes there is some universal scale for suffering though -- Like, if you aren't physically tortured (or whatever you think worse suffering than you've had would be) does that mean you suffer internally less than those that have?

I feel it's more some internal scale created on your experiences. I wonder if there's any studies on people suffering objectively vs subjectively.

E: Here's an old thread discussing this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

True. Money doesn't buy happiness, but being broke causes the sad.

I can say my overall mood radically improved when I got a good salary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Freeganism: Are we a joke to you? 😂🤣😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Money doesn't buy happiness, it buys away the unhappy