The site of million dollar houses, snobby empty people will increase your depression, even if you yourself are rich. It doesn't matter.
This is one of the reasons why the West is so depressing. They think richness makes people happy. It doesn't. I like puddles, dirt, commotion and disorder. It cures my soul.
You don't always have to be clean, orderly in EVERYTHING!
Thats why people like Marylin Monroe, Robin Williams, Michael Jackson and Elvis commit suicide. If they went to a place like Russia and started a farm, they would've met people who make them happy.
Meh, even going to a places like Canada, Iowa or Wisconsin would've helped them.
Living around cold calculating rich assholes will make you DEPRESSED.
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[–] ixaxxar 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
Money does buy happiness though. It gives you security of knowing that you will be ok, ok if your car breaks down and needs major repairs, ok that you will make your mortgage payment on time, ok if you need home repairs, no problem if there is a luxury item you want to purchase.
I fucking hate you assholes that say money doesn't buy happiness. You would be even more miserable if you didn't have any.
[–] Le_Squish 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Friends are more valuable. Lot of rich folks on my island just learned that the hard way.
[–] Mechanicalmechanic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What island? I want to move to an island and start a business.
[–] BollywoodUndead ago
Why can't you be rich and have friends? Plenty of people do. Just befriend other rich people, surely that can't be hard. Some of us poorfags have a hard enough time being poor and even with friends it sucks. Money trumps friends easily, hands down.
[–] Warnos44 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
To be fair he didn't say he'd rather be poor. He said being around rich people was depressing. I think there's a study that shows having enough to meet your needs and a little more show higher satisfaction with life rates than being wealthy.
[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Money can buy happiness but it doesn’t necessarily do so. It only works for people who can actually be made happy in the first place.
Some people will be miserable fuckers regardless.
And some people use their money to buy a lifestyle that eventually makes them very unhappy, most often because it isolates them and humans are generally a social animal.
I say this as someone who is generally happy and who is definitely happy with my money situation. I know a lot of people as rich or richer than me who are not happy, though. Simply because they do not share the reasons for being unhappy that poor people have doesn’t mean they are happy. They are just unhappy for reasons other than shortage of money.
[–] weezkitty ago
You can have money without living in a "rich neighborhood". I can't blame him. You have bullshit like HOAs in many of those neighborhods