Comments on: Why Money Does Not Bring Happiness – It Brings Unhappiness

By: Ronald

Ronald — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:00:37 +0000

I mostly disagree. Here’s my take ….

When I was a poor student-to-entry level worker, I was clearly not happy.

Then, when I’d increased my income, along with tuition reimbursement, then my happiness factor shot up some more.

And finally, when I got a job where I could control my hours, telecommute half the time, and still have a good deal of money left over, for both travel and coursework, I was the happiest.

Now, my latest goal is to be able to work 1/2 that time, while completing the rest of the income stream, by trading futures/options. Once that happens, then I would have reached a pinnacle of operational happiness.

So I don’t believe this `money doesn’t lead to happiness` sophistry. It certainly does but yes, you need some commonsense to make it work out.

The hedonic treadmill vis-a-vis `keeping up with the Jones` is a cop out. It’s a way of selling out and being mainstream, instead of being an individual. Those are psychological hangups, money didn’t create them. They were in one’s psyche from either familial or cultural conditioning. Overcome them and you’ll see, money does give you a heck of a lot of freedom and subsequently, a great deal of happiness.

By: melinda

melinda — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:11:24 +0000

well…there is alote of reality in your article. money leads to unhappiness and we can’t buy health and happiness with it but ,sometimes money could help us to get out of our financial worries…. so what am trying to say that we should know the difference between needs and wants so when we fulfill our basic needs then no need to money….

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By: FinanciallySmart

FinanciallySmart — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:27:11 +0000

Money does bring happiness if you know how to use it to achieve it. One need money to achieve the goals that he/she has set. What happen is that we believe having money the happiness will start but it doesn’t work like that. Having the money is just a stepping stone where we take ourselves from being in debt. When an individual is financially free and do the things that he/she wants to then the happiness will begin. Happiness starts within oneself.

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By: Will @ Cheap Date Ideas!

Will @ Cheap Date Ideas! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:27:12 +0000

Hey Ray,

Bang on with the comment about happiness coming from within.

What if we had all the material possessions we wanted? Where we would go from there? The inward journey then begins..

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:25:41 +0000

That made for an interesting read, I’m glad I stumbled upon this.
I think that in modern society today, money, to a certain extent, does bring a person happiness.

It’s not fair to compare a wealthy investment banker to a man living among nature in the mountains. Living with nature has also proven to bring happiness. If you want to live among the mountains in modern society, you need money. If you want to live among the mountains in a third world country, all you need to do is go there.