"Money Doesn't Give Me Happiness"

[FunInTheSunParticipant 8283]

It annoys me when rich people say money doesn’t bring them happiness when they’re being interviewed.

F~~~ HAPPINESS!

I can deal with misery a lot easier with financial freedom than I can living in poverty and getting out of bed to get ready for some stupid job. Please give me the misery of having 1% of my paychecks used for bills instead of 50%. Please give me the misery of maids/servants cleaning my house, cooking my meals, and washing the dishes afterwards. Please let me experience the misery of watching movies in my home theatre, driving sports cars, taking vacations in Tahiti, and getting a full body massage from a 20 year old chick with bouncy t~~~. I can live without happiness. I’m used to that. I haven’t been happy for the last 20 years. I don’t give a s~~~ about being happy at this point in my life. I want more money!

"I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win-and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was ‘No.’" (Atlas Shrugged)

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Well they can make a donation to me.

Not much with 1 million euros I can retire in the caribean and live in absolute boredom.

😀

F~~~ it, 500000€ I’m done with that

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Money doesn’t take happiness away either. You have to find the balance. Enough to be contend and worry free is where I like to sit.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[hollowtipsParticipant 681]

I mean the way I see it even if I had a billion dollars if I knew I had aids it wouldn’t be able to keep me happy, unless theirs a hidden cure. But it’s just political s~~~ that people say to make themselves sound deeper. Saying I’m rich and my life is a dream come true sounds shallow and douchey so by being reserved people have less ire towards you.

[MACHOParticipant]

FunInTheSun wrote:

It annoys me when rich people say money doesn’t bring them happiness when they’re being interviewed.
F~~~ HAPPINESS!
I can deal with misery a lot easier with financial freedom than I can living in poverty

Groucho Marx — ‘While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.’

You are absolutely right FunInTheSun, I’m not wealthy but until recently I was always broke and it’s no fun being left broke year in and year out while working your ass off! Since I became more independent financially life got a lot more pleasant. Money sure didn’t make me happy but it sure did give me really cool stuff/options. The Rich and their talk of unhappiness are full of S.H.I.T

You must own a better Crystal ball than I

[Spank The MisandristsParticipant 2308]

Money is just like any other tools, use it right it will serve you, use it wrong it will destroy you. Money also doesn’t change you, it barely accentuate what’s already there.

[MonkParticipant 16996]

FunInTheSun wrote:

It annoys me when rich people say money doesn’t bring them happiness …

But it does get you a better class of enemy.
-Spike Milligan.

[Anonymous 13]

Money doesn’t doesn’t bring happiness. True, we’d all rather be miserable rich, than miserable broke.

BUT

THAT expression does not so much mean the difference between rich and poor, rather it means the following.

ONCE you have a base level means of support, i.e., can easily pay your bills mortgage etc and can even save a few dollars, i.e. You’re doing ok, getting by fine

THEN a huge influx of money doesn’t bring extra happines, it brings on a temporary euphoria as you suddenly feel wealthier. Ultimately though, like anything, a new car, a new house, the novelty FADES.

You return to your base level of happiness.

Some people are always miserable c~~~s, even when wealthy.

Others are happy just getting by.

You can’t buy happiness, you just have to be happy or more realistically CONTENT. You have well being.

More money than you need gives a temporary high, then you default back to where you were.

This is not to say struggling to make ends meet is happy, it’s not. But ONCE you have that BASE LEVEL, then more is just temporary.

NOW this is why women are never happy.

Their BASE LEVEL is MISERABLE C~~~.

You buy them s~~~, new house, new SUV, new anything.

Then they’re Haappy for a short while.

But THEN they return to THEIR base level which is ‘miserable c~~~’

So you have to buy even MORE
S~~~ and so on and so on.

Men are default happy.

Women are default miserable.

TRUE.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

F~~~ that, there is peace of mind having a nest egg knowing I’m not a paycheck away from losing my place or my car, when my nest egg gets large enough it will free me from the shackles of employment as I can just live off capital gains, and it certainly is nice being able to spend a little on hobbies and going out and not having to worry about the financial consequences of it.

If you just want to be a miserable Scrooge with millions in the bank but live like a Miser and continue to plug along at some job you hate because you have nothing better to do, yeah, money won’t give you happiness, but if you are smart about it money sure as hell can give you happiness lol.

[GrumpyParticipant]

FunInTheSun wrote:

It annoys me when rich people say money doesn’t bring them happiness when they’re being interviewed.

I concur.
I would also point out that obviously the idiots are doing it wrong.
That’s like saying “money can’t buy you love”. Want to bet? It can buy you all the temporary love you want until the money runs out. (A lot like marriage)

If you want to buy love and happiness get a puppy and go camping.

There was a time in my life when I gave a fuck. Now you have to pay ME for it

[FrankOneParticipant 1420]

Beer: Money gives you freedom. Yes, when the house is paid off, the car is paid off, and you have passive income from rental property and stocks,there are fewer negative emotions. Most studies concentrate ONLY on income, but wealth/debt are equally important in my opinion. I know many people,with high income but LOW net worth.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/14/money-can-buy-happiness-but-only-to-a-point.html

Satiation on emotional scale occurs around $75K, but gains in life evaluation continue after that.

You have fewer ‘negative emotions’ at higher incomes because life is less stressful. Let’s say I have relatively high income/wealth, my car breaks down. I just call Uber to get to and from work or rent one. Whereas, if I am living paycheck to paycheck I can’t afford it or the repair and have to do it myself after a long day. Since my car is paid off, EVEN IF it also goes to a shop for repair, the bill is likely under one or two months of my colleagues who forever lease or finance, car payments.

As for the assholes in workplaces that want to have ‘Employee Appreciation Days’, I have actually told them, you appreciate employees by giving them RAISES and BONUSES, not by throwing f~~~ing parties. They explained money wasn’t the #1 factor and I had to break it to them how it correlated to happiness.

[AttonParticipant]

Tools are tools and money is no different it is how you use it.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[hdvrodParticipant 1109]

Give me your money you rich fool and I’ll prove you wrong.

Anyway communication, real open communication, is not wanted or even required in a relationship. Women cannot handle fully open and honest communication, plus most perceive it as a weakness on the part of a man. All that is required is catering to her whims, and even then nothing is certain. There is no way to be sure of having a successful relationshit with a woman. MGTaoist

[OldBillParticipant]

Money provides options.

What you do with those options is where the real questions begin.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[MarketWatcherParticipant]

Money changes people. I recently lost my job and got an email from my millionaire Aunt. She never once said sorry about losing your job. NO. Instead it was all about how wrong I am and how great she is at surviving the work environment. She has not worked in 40 YEARS. It’s real easy to sit around and be judgmental when you are held up in a 500k home with no worries. The best part is she did not even offer to help me if I needed it. I can eat s~~~ and die before she would come off 50 bucks to help me. F~~~ that.

Money seems to keep her fat and happy.

[narwhalParticipant]

Eh, much of it as relative. People who have more money are going to buy more expensive things and have more expensive wives. They are going to have a different set of Jones to keep up with.

I also think that having money doesn’t change your ability to make stupid decision, but it does magnify the financial impact of those decisions.

Personally, I think I’m at a pretty happy point in my life financially. Having more income certainly helps, but the financial satisfaction has mostly come with not increasing my spending proportionally…and full control over how my income is spent.

Ok. Then do it.

[OldBillParticipant]

narwhal wrote:

Eh, much of it as relative. People who have more money are going to buy more expensive things and have more expensive wives. They are going to have a different set of Jones to keep up with.

That’s a very important point. If your expectations keep pace with your money, you’ll never “find” happiness.

Conversely, if you’re able to determine what truly makes you happy, you may be able to achieve that with relatively little money at all.

I’ve read that wealth can be divided into three broad categories:

You Work For Your Money – Self explanatory. You work to pay bills, feed yourself, keep the roof over your head, and so forth. Nearly all of us will be in this category our entire lives.

Your Money Works For You – You’ve enough of the stuff squirreled away in stocks, bonds, investments, and whatnot that the money it earns is enough to meet whatever your needs are. Hit the lottery or be smart and save from an early age and you can reach this category.

Your Money Works For Itself – You’ve so much of the stuff that no one person, not even you, can easily know where it all is and what it all is doing. It’s being managed by dozens or hundreds of people with dozens or hundreds of ideas and opinions differing from yours. Even worse, they are thousands or tens of thousand dependent for a livelihood on all the different things your money is doing wherever it is doing it. Your money has a life of it’s own or, more accurately, many different lives some of which may at cross purposes. Howard Hughes reached this point and it helped kill him.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[LEO THE WISEParticipant 249]

They may be unhappy those rich people due to :

* they cannot trust anyone, all are friends for money
* they feel like walking wallets all the time
* they are trapped by their obsession to make more and be of the high social class (so get more money more more always more) : Have to keep the kids in private school, the wife with the big gucci bag and the big mega mansion with servants…

* They are empty from within maybe because some were spoiled children raised and born into wealth thus they lived lavishly and have never made anything valuable in their lives, from their own merit and efforts

I am quite the lone wolf anyway, could care less about many of the above points, starting from average-poor descent is an advantage here. I will enjoy my wealth but still be frugal and simple that’s the key.
Keeping the humanity part in the equation.

Leo the wise : Giving to all men their needed uprise My MGTOW YOUTUBE channel, first vid : https://youtu.be/Xt-tJgVUGuI

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