| > I can confidently say that money doesn’t make me happy, because I’ve managed to be happy at my lowest points of financial stability. I'm not saying that being poor makes it impossible to be happy. I'm saying that money can remove many stresses which make it harder to be happy. Also, there's 'low income' and then there's 'financial instability'. If you get paid $100/week, spend $50/week on rent, and $25/week on enough food to keep you well fed, and have $25/week spare, and you have a reasonably reliable job (or can easily find another one) then you're financially stable. If you're on $2000/wk but you have $1500/wk in rent/loans/whatever and $450/wk in food and transport costs, your boss is constantly threatening to fire you, and you know you can't get another job if you do get fired, you're going to have a very hard time being happy. > If losing financial stability robs somebody of all their happiness, then I’d say they should question whether they were really happy to begin with, or just comfortable. I'd flip that around and say if your happiness levels aren't affected by 'losing financial stability' then you've lost income but not financial stability. |