Money is a necessity for everyone to even survive in this world. When you become rich, then it becomes a curse. There are many different things that can make a person happy. No matter how much money you earn, you can always want more.
Money is a necessity for everyone to even survive in this world. When you become rich, then it becomes a curse. There are many different things that can make a person happy. No matter how much money you earn, you can always want more.
Money is a necessity for everyone to even survive in this world. When you become rich, then it becomes a curse. There are many different things that can make a person happy. No matter how much money you earn, you can always want more.
Citation: Skorczewski, Dawn. Can Money Buy Happiness? Pursuing Happiness. By Matthew Parfitt. N.p : n.p., 160-73. Print.
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Does money buy happiness? p. 160
I believe, to some extent that money does
buy happiness but money does not guarantee you to be happy.
it seems natural to assume that rich
people will be happier than others. p. 160
It would seem that rich people would be
happy because they can buy whatever they want and live a nice lifestyle but most of the time their lifestyle is unhappy.
Is it a necessity or a curse? p. 161
Money is a necessity for everyone to even
survive in this world and to some extent to be happy but you do not need to have a ton of it to be happy. When you become rich, then it becomes a curse.
it seems that rising desires for goods
and services to some degree cancel the effects of greater income. p. 166
This seems true because the richer you are
you will want more expensive goods and services so you are blowing your money when you could be saving it and only purchasing the regular necessities you need to survive.
there are many influences on
happiness p. 167
This is true because there are a lot of
different things that can make a person happy such as their relationships with friends, family, or significant other, or their job/lifestyle.
Wealth is, in part, also about your desires.
p. 169
Wealth is definitely also about your desires.
When you are rich your desires are different
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than the desires of middle-class individuals.
the well-off couple has enough money to meet only half of their desires, and therefore they feel poorer. p. 171
As I stated before, the wealthier desire more
expensive things so they tend to spend more and that diminishes their income to make them feel poor.
no matter how much money you earn,
you can always want more, and feel poor along the way. p. 171
I believe this to be true because as personal
experience I always want to get more but I know I cant because I dont have too much money for myself.
The happiness of materialists can suffer
because their pursuit of money distracts them from other important aspects of life, such as relationships. p. 173
This is true because they are so involved in
their work to make money and be successful that they dont care about anything else and destroy relationships and become unhappy.
the merest hint of money led to a
tendency for folks to feel confident, but also to feel more distant from others. p. 173
It definitely makes people feel more confident
because they know they can go out and but the stuff that they want but I guess the distant to others makes sense because people would want to be close to you just because of your money.