“Having money’s not everything, not having it is."
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I disagree even with this, though I know it's a common sentiment/expression.
For the first couple of decades of my life, I had little to no to negative money, depending on when we're talking about. Not having money sure was everything.
Since then, I have slowly but steadily improved my financial status. I guess I might be middle class now, but what that means is different to everybody. Anyway, now, I can afford to pay someone to come help me with housekeeping a couple of times a month. I'm also disabled and can't handle it myself. So once again, money is everything.
Even if I reached a point where I was so wealthy that money didn't mean anything, it would still be everything because I would still need it to be paying all of the people who would be helping me.
Yep, there's a certain threshold of money above which has little (but some) bearing on happiness. That threshold is fairly low in the Grand Scheme of things, but if you are below it, money absolutely will buy a certain level of happiness up to that point.
Whether you broke or rich, you gotta get...that.
Money is necessary, but not sufficient
I got 99 problems, and money would solve 95
"They say money cant buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it!" - Weird Al
Money isn't everything, but we live in a society where you need it to get anything.
Money doesn't buy happiness, but good fucking luck being happy when people will merrily let you starve if you don't give them money.
Now, what does buy happiness and is basically everything? Other people, social interaction, having support networks.
Knowing everyone in your neighbourhood and supporting each other if you need help is an extremely cheap way to give each other a baseline of happiness and make life feel more whole.
It's a luxury to be able to afford to be poor.
Being homeless and poor was the most expensive time of my life.
I mean, if I wanted to be charitable about this, a person who has a lot of money is exactly the kind of person to know that money isn't everything, because they would presumably have the experience of still having problems or wants or still being unhappy sometimes even in spite of their money. That isn't to say that money doesn't mean a lot of things even if not everything though, or that someone telling someone without enough money to not require a job to live and spend frivolously to not worry about money isn't out of touch for not understanding that some of the things that money can buy are essentials required to live one's life in the first place.
Through my job I’ve knows two billionaires; one inherited it all through a business his father built, the other acquired it all through a business he built.
Neither seemed any happier than you or me; they travelled in more luxury, for sure, and their clothes cost a bit more; they of course also had multiple houses, which they couldn’t really use at the same time and one of them had an enormous yacht and private jets (plural). It all looked very fancy but I don’t know that their happiness increased commensurately.
I think once you have a roof over your head, food on the table and don’t have to worry about what the next year or two looks like, you’re 97% there. The last 3% is influenced by money, but not determined by it.
I agree, I see the concept that the headline means to convey, but the author missed the mark. The better version would be: 'Money Isn't Important,' Says Person Who Has It.
Yeah because money isnt everything but its like saying water isnt everything to an african kid.
Context matters. It might not be everything, but still be the most important one.
Money is everything even to those who think it's not. Because our capitalist system and culture with basically no safety nets here in the US is all about money.
Yeah, no. If I could afford to have someone come clean my house, mow my lawn, buy a new car every few years, fly first class to places I want to visit/take vacations, have good health insurance that isn't tied to employment I would be happy as shit. I constantly have to worry about silly shit because I can't afford not to. It creates a lot of stress as I'm missing out on other things. It's taking a huge toll on my overall health.
Could be found in nottheonion too ? ... "Money can't buy happiness, especially for those who don't have any. " - Coluche
"Money isn't everything. I know because I have money, and I have everything." - An American Tail
Only reason people even need money is because we actively destroy the spaces we would need to live on the land without it.
No person is wholly self-sufficient. Every person depends on the efforts of other people to live, survive, and thrive. Those efforts have value, and so we exchange value to other people for what we cannot supply for ourselves.
Money is a fantastic way to do that. Money is what we all agree represents value.
That’s a heretic opinion here on Lemmy.
Good thing I'm not on Lemmy.
Money is what we all agree represents value
Well, that's what it's supposed to be, but in today's digital world it is increasingly becoming only what a small handful of people agree represents value.
I think you meant to say that it is CONTROLLED by a small minority of people; however it must be ACCEPTED by the majority or else it has no value at all.
That doesn't even make any sense.
Ehh. Plenty of places you can go buy land and try, but you need a decent population mass (i.e. commune) to actually be somewhat self sufficient. Without money, you're not going to be buying any tools, construction materials or any other supplies.
Medical treatment also ends up being questionable - if you're in the US, you probably get nothing unless you're about to die. If you're elsewhere, other people's taxes pay for it...
If indeed it is true that possessing X isn't as valuable as it is perceived to be by those who don't possess it, it actually makes perfect sense that it is precisely those who do possess X who would be the ones most likely to learn/know such.
For example, lots of people fantasize(d) about owning a pool. But pool owners know better than those who don't that they're not all they're cracked up to be, and sometimes arguably more trouble than they're even worth.