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Honestlyyyy.
My biggest issue rn is credit card debt. My dog needed multiple surgeries and my car needed fixed. I have 2 maxed out cards and no interest until November. It's only like 6k to pay off, but it's still overwhelming because I've never had to deal with this type of thing before. I think I can get it all paid off before November, but it's still a daunting task.
Rip my fun summer plans.
Yeah, life always seems to throw expensive problems at people all at the same time. I thought I had a pretty good nest egg saved up, and then boom… Car shit the bed, cat needed surgery, wife had a hospital stay, and a few other big life events. All while the economy is in the garbage, inflation is in the high double digits, the wife is out of work (due to the aforementioned hospital stay), and any hope of a social safety net was being dismantled right in front of me.
I didn’t even consciously realize how stressed I was about money, until I realized I had fallen back to pirating my PC games instead of just buying them. I hadn’t been a prolific pirate since my broke college student days… And then suddenly there I was again, browsing FG’s site for the latest repack, so I could install it in between shifts.
I found myself going to my mom's place every day for dinner for a week and taking leftovers home. Now she's just automatically freezing portions for me. She knows my ass is BROKE
Staycation all I can afford, staycation can't get away, staycation guess I'll just be alone.
"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan
"Money cant buy you happiness, but it can buy you a jetski. Have YOU ever seen anyone crying on a jetski?" - me.
You're argument is very convincing. Guess I have to buy a jetski with the money I hav... Oh wait
Well duh. Just apply for a leadership position. Double the stress for a dollar raise!
Getting 99 salary increases does feel unrealistic though
Ya the only people who say this bullshit are those that have never experienced hard ship before.
If people have not experienced hard ship and they are still unhappy, they are qualified to tell you that the lack of economic problems does not bring happiness.
Just by pure logic.
Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton at Princeton University published a study in 2010 showing that money buys happiness only up to about $75k per year (in 2010 dollars, for Americans), at which point happiness plateaus and more money doesn't meaningfully buy more happiness.
Years later, Matthew Killingsworth at the University of Pennsylvania published a study showing that happiness didn't really plateau with money, but kept increasing at $75k and beyond.
They got together to see if they could reconcile their different findings from pretty similar methodologies.
As it turns out, Killingsworth's data did show the same plateau, at pretty much the same place, if you focus only on the least happy 20%. In a sense, the Kahneman data was focused on only measuring unhappiness, and didn't properly distinguish between people who were kinda happy, people who were moderately happy, and people who were really happy.
So now the most widely accepted analysis is that there are people who are deeply unhappy, for whom giving them more money might not make them emotionally better off, at least past $75k in 2010 dollars. But for the rest of us, the majority of people will continue getting happier with more money, well up to the $500k income.
Money alone can't buy happiness, but it sure helps with the down payment.
I more think it's impressive they manage to still be unhappy with absolutely no reason to be so.
That is because money can't buy happiness.
A lack of money can cause unhappiness though.
Money can't buy happiness but poverty can't buy shit.
Money buys me happiness all the time.
Ive always said "Money cant buy you happiness, money does however let you rent happiness."
Eh, some could also be solved with more time off.
Why not both? :D
Happiness is connected to contentment, feeling you have enough.
There are people living in their cars who are happy, and elon musk, with all the money in the world, very much doesn't look like a happy person.
He is confirmed to be sufferring from treatment resistant depression, hence the ketamine. Or more accurately, esketamine nose injections. Expensive as shit, but a "wonderdrug" in treating it. At least when done by reputable doctors and not recreationally.
Edit: not that depression means sad, or that lack of it means happy of course.
The money can't buy you happiness people are rich.
Maybe not rich, but at the very least they are not poor.
I'm very close to paying off all my student debt. You'd think I'd be happier with the extra 250 a month now going to me, but.... it's really not a life changing amount. I can afford better groceries, and can save a bit for a rainy day. Other than that, nothing much really.
Financial independence would be life changing. Not seeing a large portion of my income going to rent, but to a property that I own and can happily invest time and effort into. That would be amazing
I've always said if money can't buy happiness then what's the point in having it.
It buys a reduction in unhappiness, which is a good first step to hapiness, but money can't take you the next step of actually appreciating what you've got.
Not starving to death, mostly
There was definitely a point in my career where I was making 50k CAD/year and it was a bigger change than my previous job when I went from 40k to 45k. I'm in a HCOL area.
I was able to rent my own small 1 bedroom apartment (price has more than doubled since then 🤮), go on small little trips locally, finish paying off me debt, buy a few nice things, and actually save money.
Over the years my salary increased a lot as I retrained as a software developer, and sure, the money is nice and I can buy more nice things and save more, but the big change was at 50k when it finally felt comfortable.
If it was 50k then though, given rent increases and other cost of living increases, I'm not sure you'd get that same experience until 70-75k now though.
but it surely helps a lot, i mean i dont ask to be a billionaire, just enough for place to living, and i dont have to worry about food. and maybe with a pc gaming :) and i hope i dont need to go to hospital because sickness. just die while im asleep.. just burn my body or give it to some lion. i dont care
pardon my english
Past a certain point, money can't buy any more happiness. Sure, you have a house, but what is it worth if there's no one to share it with?
There's always gold-digging hoes. (That includes men too.) When people only want your money, you literally have to go out of your way to make your own happiness...
but what is it worth if there’s no one to share it with?
You can pay people for that.
