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[–] ChillyHellion ago 

my favorite is "money can't buy happiness but lack of it can sure make you sad".

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[–] WildThingSammiT ago 

I read somewhere that the people living in India's ghettos are some of the happiest people on Earth.

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[–] Techius [S] ago 

That's sad.

get it? ;)

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[–] Germ22 ago 

I disagree. Money can buy you a jet ski. Have you ever seen someone not happy on a Jet Ski?

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[–] Ben77 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Money can't buy happiness, but it's a lot more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.

I have no idea who said this but I like it.

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[–] SpiceRunner ago 

Tell that to Diogenes

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[–] SpiceRunner ago 

Hah! We never left. The more I learn about ancient greek culture the more it seems like so little has changed. I guess it's just human nature that hasn't changed.

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[–] goodluvin ago 

Money gives you options/choices.

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[–] tryingthisout 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Money alone won't buy you happiness, but it's damn hard to be happy if you don't have financial security, adequate shelter and food, enough sleep, etc.

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[–] pitenius 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Poverty is the natural state of man. You can be happy this way. I've seen it in the South Pacific -- few clothes, eating fish and fruit: life is what you make it.

Money is a contract into a social relationship. You have something other people esteem. You can negotiate with them. This can go well or it can go poorly. The trouble is not the money, but the relationship, the miscommunication of desires, deceit, disparate goals. But there's a dark side to this type of social contract: debt.

The debtor is craven and beholden to the esteem of others. If poverty is the natural state of man, debt is the mark of a slave.

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[–] pm_me_or 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

The society we live in flourishes under innovation, science, foresightedness. These have no value in societies where the only goal in life is to be happy.

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[–] pitenius ago 

English really needs an inclusive and exlcusive "we". I'm assuming you're an urban American.

Also, I can't think of a society in which the only goal is to be happy. I would say this desire for happiness is actually an oddly American phenomenon: the fruit-eating fishermen I referenced above felt man was born with three debts: heirs, learning and religious rituals. Until these were discharged, there could be no happiness.

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