| "money can't buy happiness" is a poor mans cope. It's a comforting lie for proletariat, the opium for the goycattle. If you can't buy happiness either one of these is true: 1. You don't have enough money to buy it. Buying happiness isn't cheap. 2. You have skill issues. Most people simply don't have enough money to test the hypothesis that "money can't buy happiness", for them earning money involves a lot of struggle and selling their time, and all sorts of opportunity costs. Thus for working class people having more money is intrinsically linked to selling more of their time or "working harder" (having two jobs, overtime). Therefore it seems unintuitive to them that having more money will bring hapiness. After all they have to work so hard for it and sell a piece of themselves for it. And then there, of course, people with skill issues. The more money I have, the happier I become. Money has brought nothing, but pure joy in my life, it has made me smile more! |