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Jul 12, 2025 10:04 PM
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unluckyandbored
Money can't buy happiness--but it can buy the safety and security to pursue happiness.
dmTim
A repost but it can’t be said enough.
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
The reason why the super-rich are even tolerable is via the idea that while they may have *shitloads* of money, the hoi polloi get a little more money than they would have otherwise. This idea became popular because people who are super-rich can blanket media in ways we can't in order to sway voters. So far it's been working.
GiraffeMoonPilot6
Money is the answer 9/10 times.
Lightsmith
Money won't make you happy is such a lie.
WoodyGoodman
If only so that you can pay for the therapy.
AgamemnonsMemes
Damn call me out why don't you.. I live in australia and we get 10 free (well, like 80% off) a year which is great but i need like, twice that many (well probably more than that but lol)
tidepool
My therapist keeps pointing out I’d be doing a lot better if the government didn’t keep me 135% below the poverty line. So true, bestie.
ispendtomuchtimehere
can't buy love but there's peace of mind..
RunawaySpoons
Yeah it can buy a level of comfort and security. It can't buy happiness but it can certainly remove some fundamental stresses.
FaerieWalnut
Damn and here I am trying to get a job so I can afford therapy, like a complete moron.
FlatPlutoSociety
Money can't buy happiness, but it's really, really hard to be happy when you're poor.
IGotTheMusicInMe425
Money might not buy happiness, but poverty doesn't buy anything, so 🤷♀️
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Poverty buys unhappiness, is how I phrase it.
Erulogos
Money can't buy happiness, but it can rent it indefinitely.
Calicious
I went from homeless at 18 to financially independent by 28. I can attest that almost all of my problems and stressors disappeared when I stopped having to worry about money.
It's a wonder what financial security can do to your happiness and mental health.
pixelsnader
Money can also pay for therapy
duramater1
But also therapy….that costs money
Allrighty
We don't just need socialised healthcare - socialism IS healthcare, and furthermore, we cannot have a fair democracy unless everyone has their basic needs met.
Imalwaysready
Wonder what she charges?
SternLecturePlumbing
I have friends that are medical professionals who admit to paying for their patients medication. Not even just to be compassionate. It’s actually beneficial to the company that the patient DOESNT get readmitted because they couldn’t afford their meds.
Wolfshead009
The old saying is, "An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure". It is interesting how much one can save by fixing a small problem before it becomes a much bigger problem.
SternLecturePlumbing
That was my life motto SO HARD. That’s why working healthcare through COVID broke me
LibranLuvertis
... because therapy is expensive
AgamemnonsMemes
My life would be unrecognizably better if i found 100k. 50k would set me up for like, three years. 500k would solve every problem i had from now until retirement.
pxlphile
To pay therapists?
MsAnnVeal
I agree to an extent. I know some people who would be made more heinous with money, but they might be outliers.
TinaRo
Money dosen't corrupt, it gives you options. Including the option to be who you really are. Of you are a deeply broken person money let's you be that in SPADES
Sypurist
Yeah, but we're not talking about heinous amounts of money here, just enough that you don't have to decide whether to feed yourself or pay the rent. Electricity or running water? I know my mental health would be better if I wasn't perpetually 90 days from homelessness.
MeowMachine12
Those aren't the people we're discussing here.
AgamemnonsMemes
Money might not buy happiness but its better to cry in the back of a limo than on your bicycle.
Psionickitten
I kept getting ads for "Better Help" for a while. I'm like "Yeah, I need to spend money I don't have on therapy, rather than you know, just have money to make the stressful things go away."
KainLamond
Right, talking about something doesn't change it, you need actions, and actions cost money.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
The reason I don't bother with therapy anymore is that therapy seems designed to find a way to make me be okay with the world as it is. THE WORLD IS NOT OK, AND I'M NOT CRAZY FOR HAVING A PROBLEM WITH IT.
SithElephant
And time. An hour a week plus the time used to earn the money to access the therapist...
Allrighty
That's not even the point - there's only so much a therapist can do for you if your stress and depression and trauma have real, tangible, material causes that could be directly addressed with money. Therapy can, at best, offer a bandaid in those cases.
KainLamond
Oh yeah that too like you're not open weekends? Like you know that's the only time people have to do stuff right?
earthlingextraordinaire
SF0X
It’s unsurprising how many other problems get resolved when people aren’t as stressed out, and how many of those problems are caused by resource scarcity. What has never really made sense to me is how people give the ultra-wealthy a pass despite the way they increase the scarcity of everything for everybody else.
koyote2033
People will tend to believe in the "good" of others, and then apply it to "evil" because acknowledging such evil in humanity exists will break them.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
But it seems like those who support the billionaires, literally believe that anyone left of MAGA is evil. So I don't see how this could be the case.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
It isn't a logical position. The point is that they trust in faulty logic that has no basis in reality. Only feelings. So when those feelings change, depending on the situation in question, so does the logic they follow to guide their decisions.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I'm saying they're absolutely ecstatic to believe in evil in people to the left of them. So the theory that "acknowledging evil in humans will break them" can't be true. They love thinking there are evil humans. Their worldview thrives on and requires it.
PTKrieg
Americans in particular make it part of their national myth that there is no stratification of classes in the U.S., and that anyone can conceivably play their cards right and come out on top. So A) they too, one day, could be part of that elite, and don't want to restrict themselves, and B) they honestly think that someone can earn a billion dollars, and that "punishing" them for success would be unfair.
GrandmasterSpank
Imagine a world where everyone has a safe place to sleep, a fridge with food, has fresh water and has clothing. No more rat race. No more living in fear every day because you're not sure you will have a place to sleep 3 months from now.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
If they want people to have more babies, this is the way to do it. When people feel safe and secure, they have babies. When they don't... the population drops.
GrandmasterSpank
No no no other way around. Birthrate goes up during insecurity, war, hunger etc etc. Birthrate goes down when civilization is doing well. That is why European birth rates are so very low and the ones in Africa for instance are so very high. And I think the GOP knows this. They create horrible circumstances on purpose to increase birth rate.
gumshoe99
In this economy???
GrandmasterSpank
No, not in THIS economy. That is where the guillotines come in :P