Good article about wealth and happiness

[Bozza]

Some good points. Makes ya think...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2016859,00.html

 

[dwayne]

good article but didn't quite know what the last bloke was going on about? 100k a year salary but cannot afford to dine at The Ivy?!?

 

[Napper]

most people that say money doesn;t make you happier are in fact poor/not well off

 

[Napper]

or the same as ugly people saying looks don't count

 

[Rangdo]

Money alone doesn't make you happy. But you can use it to do things that make you happy.

 

[Curious Orange]

I think you get to a certain level of earning where the amount of money you bring in is less of an issue. Certainly for me I've probably reached that level in the last year or so, and it no longer concerns me, so lack of money is no longer a detraction from my happiness.

Would more money make me happier? I doubt it, I do all the things I really want to now. It'd make me more secure, but not happier.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I would rather be wealthy and depressed than poor and depressed

 

[Yorkie]

Money gives you choices but doesn't make you happy.

 

[dwayne]

Money gives you choices but doesn't make you happy.

To be honest are you qualified to answer that?

I'm more inclined to reference someone who has had no money at one point and a LOT of money at another point.

 

[Yorkie]

To be honest are you qualified to answer that?

I'm more inclined to reference someone who has had no money at one point and a LOT of money at another point.

Is anyone qualified to answer that or only rich people?

 

[dwayne]

Is anyone qualified to answer that or only rich people?

only people that have been poor and rich, so not people that have only been poor and not people that have only been rich.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

Money alone doesn't make you happy. But you can use it to do things that make you happy.

is that not the same thing?

 

[Bluejuice]

Having gone from crippling debts and ultimately filing for bankruptcy, to having a steady well paid job and not a single outgoing expense other than my weekly beer spend I can honestly say that I was INFINITELY happier in the financially sound period of my life than when I was on the poverty line.

Utter tosh that money doesn't bring you happiness.

Without money your life is hindered, so you cannot do everything you'd like to. When you've got the money to do as you please, these frustrations go away.

It is only the poor who claim you don't need money to be happy. You don't NEED it, but you certainly don't WANT to be without it

 

[Yorkie]

Without money your life is hindered, so you cannot do everything you'd like to. When you've got the money to do as you please, these frustrations go away.

Which is what I said. It gives you choices.

Money doesn't help when you live with a chronic illness or your partner leaves you or a friend dies.
Happiness is friends, family, love, and respect. You cannot buy those things.