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  • Dem Bosain
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    819 months ago

    When people tell me ‘money doesn’t buy happiness’, I tell them ‘it removes a lot of anxiety’.

    These people don’t have any anxiety anymore, and believe they can do anything. Most of the time they’re right.

    • @[email protected]
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      449 months ago

      Money doesn’t buy happiness, it’s merely a pre-requisite for health, safety, freedom of movement, education, and social standing.

      • @[email protected]
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        109 months ago

        health, safety, freedom of movement, education, and social standing

        Which all contribute severely to your happiness.

    • @[email protected]
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      269 months ago

      Money can’t buy happiness, this is true, but it sure buys a shitton of opportunities to feel happy…

      • @DillyDaily
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        169 months ago

        Plus a bunch of stuff that was illegal when you were poor suddenly becomes perfectly legal if you’re rich enough to pay the associated fees.

        I mean, sure the police call them “fines”…but still.

    • Possibly linux
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      109 months ago

      Once your basic needs are met money can’t really make you that much happier. They did a study on a bunch of people and they found that once you have all the needs met you can’t buy happiness

      • Björn Tantau
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        239 months ago

        Which means that until all your needs are met money actually does buy happiness.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          99 months ago

          “Having money’s not everything. Not having it is.” -K. West

    • GladiusB
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      99 months ago

      Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does make it a helluva lot easier

    • @moistclump
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      49 months ago

      If money doesn’t buy happiness all I ask for is to have to learn this hard lesson for myself.

  • @malloc
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    469 months ago

    If you are poor with outlandish ideas, you are crazy. But if you are rich, then you are eccentric, entrepreneurial, or a maverick.

  • Stern
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    209 months ago

    True. J.K. Rowling didn’t have shit to say about trans people when she was on the dole.

    • @[email protected]
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      159 months ago

      Maybe she had shit to say but no one would care. There are plenty of nobodies with similarly crappy opinions but no one pays them any attention.

      • Stern
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        69 months ago

        Insofar as I recall she wasn’t TERF’y until well after the books and movies. Most folks could ding her for during that time period was the goblins and some character naming.

        • @[email protected]
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          89 months ago

          Sure, but back then the whole issue didn’t get that much attention to begin with.

    • themeatbridge
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      129 months ago

      Excessive is a different threshold for each person. For some, it’s “so much that I’ve lost touch with the reality of human struggle.” For others, it’s “just enough so I can stop pretending I’m not a giant douche.”

      • HopeOfTheGunblade
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        9 months ago

        It’s less about the specific amount and more about the comparative relation. Having a lot more money than other people fucks you up; if you’re interested in the specifics, Some More News did a dive into the literature on it, and they have citations.

        • @[email protected]B
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          39 months ago

          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          Some More News

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

      • AnonStoleMyPants
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        29 months ago

        Yes, and for quite a few money doesn’t even change anything. People are different.

        • @[email protected]B
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          29 months ago

          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          2 A-Holes

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

  • @[email protected]
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    129 months ago

    People use money to avoid hard work like introspection

  • @[email protected]
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    39 months ago

    Do you all actually act sane or is there some nuance I don’t understand?

    You’d have to be mentally ill for that to be case, I think.

    • Fubber Nuckin'
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      49 months ago

      To clarify, are you saying that you’d have to start off with some mental illness to be able to act like you didn’t have it?

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Not sure if I’m stepping to a bait, but only insane people would have the need “to act sane”, right?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          39 months ago

          My unproven hypothesis is that everybody’s a little nuts, just maybe not clinically so.

        • Fubber Nuckin'
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          19 months ago

          I’m not baiting, it just seemed like you might have been trying to call someone mentally ill and i was making sure that wasn’t the case.

  • Possibly linux
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    29 months ago

    I think you need money to meet your basic needs. When it comes to really wealth people acting crazy it is usually just media overhype. If they are crazy it earned them a lot of money

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      Well I suppose like money craziness can be hereditary.

  • @AgentGrimstone
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    19 months ago

    I think at some point it makes people bored. The insanity is a way to stay entertained.