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submitted 7 months ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

Money does indeed buy happiness, and it increases with a bigger paycheque more than economists previously believed, a recent analysis has found.

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[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

It's somewhat realistic. Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain come to mind. It's also kinda shown with the number of people that come into money then fall out of it.

Kinda inverse to me. I think there's a level of financial comfortability that reduces stress and anxiety. Money doesn't buy happiness, but poor buys some very negative emotional responses.

[-] june@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It’s not realistic. The realistic phrase would be ‘excess does not buy happiness’.

Yes we have Anthony Bourdain and Robin Williams as counter examples, but it’s pretty shitty to use their mental health to support a classist tool designed to keep the lower classes quiet. Money doesn’t fix everything because not everything can be fixed, but it definitely does buy a lot of joy and opportunity to live and enjoy living.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I think I made it clear that I thought the situation was more complicated than either position makes it out to be. Having the means to be comfortable and secure matters a lot. After that, though, we have diminishing returns.

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